[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Ashjuk

@ Tex2002ans - I will upload the text files to my Google drive account and post the link here for everyone to take a look at.

Originally Posted by Ashjuk

As for 'Egyptologist', I think you will find that this is not as rare as SCOWL suggests.

Yes, hence the bug report.

"Egyptologist" + "Egyptologists" belong in the "_large" (size 70) dictionaries.

Egyptologies is near non-existent. It's a complete speck. (I've never seen such a rare word on Google n-grams. Its usage goes down to the final, 10th decimal place.)

Right now, those words are mistakenly placed.

Originally Posted by Ashjuk

@ BetterRed I have to disagree with you on airplane/aeroplane one as one who lives in the UK close to a major airport everyone I know uses airplane in common speech.

Google n-grams: "airplane" vs. "aeroplane"
- American
- British

You can see in American, "aeroplane" pretty much doesn't exist since 1930.

In British, it's only recently (2012) that "airplane" barely squeezed by "aeroplane".

If you look at dictionaries though, they all have "regional notes":

• Collins
  
  • An aeroplane is a vehicle with wings and one or more engines that enable it to fly through the air.
    
  • British. Regional Note: in AM, use airplane.
• Lexico
  
  • British - A powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces.
    
  • North American term airplane.
• Merriam-Webster
  
  • British - Airplane.
• Macmillan
  
  • British / UK - a plane.
• American Heritage
  
  • Chiefly British. Variant of airplane.

Dictionaries are slower moving, but they are very authoritative sources. You'd have to give a lot of solid proof to overturn information in them.

Perhaps in a few more years, if that "airplane" trend continues, then it will become a more accepted/common British variant (in the dictionaries).

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Side Note: A few months back, I ran across this great podcast, "Pessimists Aloud". They dig up old newspaper articles and read them in an old-timey voice.

You may like these 2 episodes:

• “A Skeptical Nation Visits Upon the Airplane the Doubts it Once Felt for the Automobile" - The New York Times (1928)
  
  • Detailed article here: "1920s Reactions to Aeroplanes"
• Reading in Bed (1909) + Aeroplane Face (1908)
  

Maybe that's why American's stopped spelling it "aeroplane"—they didn't want to get "Aeroplane Face" (or "Bicycle Face")!

That dang modern technology, making the wind blow against your face so fast your face gets permanently distorted!