How has it come to be that we British have the pleasure of saying aeroplane, whereas the US Americans (and possibly others) are only left with airplane?
Learn English – Aeroplane and airplane
etymology
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Best Answer
Wikipedia defines the reason:
[4][http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=aeroplane&searchmode=none]
[5][Oxford English Dictionary, airplane, draft revision March 2008; airplane is labeled "chiefly North American"]
[6][ British National Corpus. Retrieved 1 April 2008]
[7][Merriam-Webster online, aerodrome. Retrieved 1 April 2008.]
[8][Oxford English Dictionary, airdrome.]
[9][http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aeroplane]