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By: Flat 12x2 - 6th January 2014 at 23:30

http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local/airmen-found-after-70-years-1-5784327

Nobody on here reads the Daily Mirror then, (not me, I saw it over on the WiX forum)
Over a week ago http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51750
Daily Mirror article http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/halifax-bomber-berlin-swamp-sister-2965363#ixzz2ooX5e4ig

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By: avion ancien - 6th January 2014 at 22:33

You might just get away with it unless they were sheeps rather than deers!

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By: Zidante - 6th January 2014 at 19:10

Many thanks for highlighting this Andy. Will endeavor to follow up a bit.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 6th January 2014 at 16:49

Interesting observation. But….

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/46824/why-does-the-incorrect-plural-aircrafts-seem-to-be-occurring-more-often

and…

http://www.usingenglish.com/poll/630.html

I have a feeling I know what publishers would do if confronted with ‘aircrafts’ as plural.

Does that mean that if I write, say, about an aircraft making a forced landing in a field full of deer, then I should write: “The aircraft came to rest amongst some deers”?

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By: Beermat - 6th January 2014 at 16:18

Interesting. But I am starting to wonder whether there is some kind of guide for journalists that gives the plural of ‘aircraft’ as ‘aircrafts’. It seems to happen more frequently in newspaper articles than it does in everyday speech.

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