that is weird even though I would pronounce it aeroplane I really thought ā€˜aeroplane’ was some old turn of the century word the fit both bands aesthetics at the time, but thinking about it of course aeroplane is a word

Rarely used these days due to the US hegemony or whatever but yeah it’s still a real word that can be used, hence Aerodromes.

Obviously using it is a particular stylistic choice for a US band. I guess file alongside calling your band Pavement not Sidewalk or indeed Tortoise not Turtle?

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Guys Aeroplane is a RHCP song

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Good one as well

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It always bothered me that British Post rock band Let Airplanes Circle Overhead use the US spelling even though they take their name from the Auden poem ā€œFuneral Bluesā€ which has the UK spelling.

It also bothers me that no one ever listened to Let Airplanes Circle Overhead. They got lost in the glut of post rock bands in the last decade and totally overlooked despite being way better than most.

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but it’s a plane that flies in the air

find both mangum and corgan a billion times less embarrassing than yer man from weezer

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still quite embarrassing, then

of course

I blame you all

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might get this one

What’s the Americanism* here? Different words for different animals, surely?

*Often Americanisms are older, and it’s the UK that changed (from reading the Bill Bryson book about US English).

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I have read those books. Any use of English in America that is unique or predominant there is an Americanism surely? It doesn’t matter if it was an old term.

Maybe, I’m not sure tbh. To me, when (British) people use it is often with the assumption that the US version is a ā€˜corruption’, and therefore newer.

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Decided Rocket is the second best song on the album after Hummer

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The alternate version of Rocket is great too. Rearranged and kind of MCISified.

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possibly the same show, slightly better audio

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So how many rolling smashing pumpkins threads do we have now? 3? 4?

4 if you include the ava adore video one

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none started by me I should add

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