On 10/4/2010 5:06 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
zPlane, zPlane ...
As I, and other Canadians, have already pointed out, this is
a US-centric joke, and only funny in the States.
<zed>Plane is just not funny in the other English Speaking
countries.
That argument has things backwards <g>
Herve Villechaise's character would never have used zedPlane,
because he was mispronouncing The Plane. For non-U.S. manglers
of English, consider it a pun on SeaPlane, which is what
normally arrived at the island.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
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