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Old May 21st 16, 12:13 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna,uk.radio.amateur
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Default When did ignorance overcome education, for the correct plural is,"antennae"?

On 21/05/2016 11:20, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Jeff writes


Well my UK 1956 Collins Dictionary says for 'antenna' noun...
(Wireless)...plural antennas.


So antennas was certainly accepted as correct in the UK in 1956.


Jeff


In the UK, I think it's only some of the more-esoteric scientific
research boffins in WW2 who would have used 'antenna' and 'antennae'.


When R V Jones wrote his report on the Luftwaffe's X-Gerate navigation
and bombing system, he included a photograph of a Heinkel 111 annotated
with arrows pointing to the three aerials of the system, which he had
labelled 'X-Beam antennae'.

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