Taxyway or Taxiway
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So here it is in an example page from the AIP spelt with an "I" (bottom centre of page)
http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadba...2011-11-17.pdf
This all started in a spelling correction I made, a discussion here in the office over the spelling, and I then said "let me show you the AIP, that will fix you all" - and then I found this .... !
By the way, we did obliquely move on to Hangar as well, of course.
http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadba...2011-11-17.pdf
This all started in a spelling correction I made, a discussion here in the office over the spelling, and I then said "let me show you the AIP, that will fix you all" - and then I found this .... !
By the way, we did obliquely move on to Hangar as well, of course.
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Of course, but never mynd, thys here is a purely Brytysh thyng 
Let me quote from Wykypedya:
"By the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became identical to I (/iː/ and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had I were spelled with Y, and vice-versa."
Here in Germany we have had a big spelling reform about 15 years ago and still a lot of people refuse to write the new way. Britain has had it's reform 500 years ago and still some people...
ICAO,FAA and UK CAA use an I ,just like the cab...
Let me quote from Wykypedya:
"By the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became identical to I (/iː/ and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had I were spelled with Y, and vice-versa."
Here in Germany we have had a big spelling reform about 15 years ago and still a lot of people refuse to write the new way. Britain has had it's reform 500 years ago and still some people...
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Depends on how high the landing fees are - I've travelled on some definite TAX-yways!
Google finds "taxy" 3.2 million times - and "taxi" 498 million times. The "I's" have it.
Google finds "taxy" 3.2 million times - and "taxi" 498 million times. The "I's" have it.
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pattern_is_full,
Well if we're going to be precise, putting the two words into google "with these" around them gives the following -
"Taxiway" - 2,260,000 results
"Taxyway" - 24,800 results
and
"Taxiing" - 2,870,000 results
"Taxying" - 196,000 results
It seems 'Taxi/Taxiing' it is then, not that it matters!
Well if we're going to be precise, putting the two words into google "with these" around them gives the following -
"Taxiway" - 2,260,000 results
"Taxyway" - 24,800 results
and
"Taxiing" - 2,870,000 results
"Taxying" - 196,000 results
It seems 'Taxi/Taxiing' it is then, not that it matters!
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Taxi | Define Taxi at Dictionary.com
Taxy | Define Taxy at Dictionary.com
-taxis | Define -taxis at Dictionary.com
taxi
1907, shortening of taximeter cab (introduced in London in March 1907), from taximeter "automatic meter to record the distance and fare" (1898), from Fr. taximètre, from Ger. Taxameter (1890), coined from M.L. taxa "tax, charge." An earlier Eng. form was taxameter (1894), used in horse-drawn cabs.
1907, shortening of taximeter cab (introduced in London in March 1907), from taximeter "automatic meter to record the distance and fare" (1898), from Fr. taximètre, from Ger. Taxameter (1890), coined from M.L. taxa "tax, charge." An earlier Eng. form was taxameter (1894), used in horse-drawn cabs.
chauffeur-driven automobile available for hire to carry passengers between any two points within a city or its suburbs for a fare determined by a meter or zone system or a flat rate. The taxicab is named after the taximeter, an instrument invented by Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891 that automatically recorded the distance traveled and/or the time consumed, thus enabling the fare to be accurately measured. The term cab derives from the cabriolet, a two-wheeled, one-horse carriage often let out for hire
-taxis or -taxy — n combining form 1. indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus: thermotaxis 2. order or arrangement: phyllotaxis
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Does anybody know why the movement of aircraft on ground is called "taxiing" at all? I mean, it has nothing to do with a taxi, where you pay for being driven.