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Taxyway or Taxiway
Taxyway or Taxiway.
OK, which way do you spell it ? Even official charts differ. I've always been a "Y" advocate. |
Taxyway.
The other spelling is for taxi cabs, IMHO. |
And yet so many things to learn as a pilot....:E
I vote for taxIway anytime. |
It's definitely taxy... Always has been. Not sure how it got hijacked. We'll be keeping aeroplanes in hangers next.
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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. |
ICAO,FAA and UK CAA use an I ,just like the cab....:E
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Hi!
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... |
Does it really matter aniway ?
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Helllloooo...that aeroplane is taxiing along that taxiway. Got it?!
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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. |
ICAO annex 14, Aerodrome Design and Operations...
Taxi I dont think I have ever seen it spelled taxy.... |
Well you have now.
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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! |
I can't recall ever spelling taxiway with 2 ys in my 42 years of flying.
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Out here... its TAXIWAY.
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Taxywaii you fools
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Taxi | Define Taxi 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. 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 |
And the wonders of Google Adwords to find relevant adds - was reading not logged in and the ad at the bottom was for instant Taxi insurance and a picture of a London Taxi. :)
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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.
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In Science, Taxis is a type of response to a stimulus. Taxis is a "specific, directed motion in response to a stimulus"
Not sure if this has anything to do with it? |
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