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jta · May 19th 16, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Ross

On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 8:28:38 AM UTC-4, gareth wrote:
"joe" lid wrote in message
...
gareth wrote:

I have in my possession a book entitled, "Antennae", published in 1942
by a lecturer to both King's College, London, and also to various Brit
government
establishments.

At some point since then, the ignorance of either engineers or of Yanks
has tried
to pass off, "Antennas" as the plural.

If we pride ourselves on the exactness of our principles, then it is high
time to correct this glaring error by the Yanks.

(Book being studied avidly, although with some necessary revision
ov vector field theory; div, curl and grad, anyone?)

From an online dictionary:

I guess that it would be a fair assumption, bearing in mind the development
of
computers and, much later, the Internet, that your online dictionaries
originated
several decades after 1942, and long after the ignoramuses' error arose?

Um, wouldn't that be "ignorami"??

Insects have antennae. Hams have antennas.

And things do change; remember kilocycles?

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