[Ads-l] aircrafts

[Stephen Goranson]

AS IF we need...?
Some say Apocalypse already happened.
Oh, what's the right emoji?

S
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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2022 9:33 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Subject: Re: aircrafts

Like we need another Sign of the Apocalypse.

The book. _Aircraft of the Spanish Civil War_ appears to have been retitled
_Aircrafts of the Spanish Civil War_.

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JL

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 1:57 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Surely this neo-plural has been mentioned here.
>
> But here is an ex. from a scholarly publication:
>
> 2012 Elisabeth Bronfen _Specters of War_ (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
> U.P.) 121: The editing includes close-up shots of paratroopers jumping from
> their aircrafts.
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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