>SNIP
>>(now don't tell me these are airplanes - they belong to the Navy, they must be ships!).
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>Sorry to dissappoint you. Actually they are referred to as
aircraft or
birds. The ship is referrred to as a
boat too - no matter how big it is.
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>You might have fun with this:
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http://www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htmSo how come we can't say front and back instead of fore and aft? ;-)
My brother was in the Navy for six years and I'm not sure he was ever on a ship, sorry, boat. He may have had one brief cruise early on but that was it.
