Psi-Lord wrote:Would you guys happen to know if it's specific to Scotland, or if it can be heard in e.g. London, too?
Haha, personally, I think they made it up.
I've lived in London almost all my life and the British Standard English (prestige dialect) is "airport". I asked a Scottish friend who has lived in Edinburgh all her life, she, like me, also uses, has only ever used, and has only ever heard "airport".
All the public Scottish airports use the word "airport" in their titles (if that word is used)..
"Aberdeen International Airport" (EGPD)
"Edinburgh Airport" (EGPH)
"Dundee Airport" (EGPN)
"Glasgow Prestwick Airport" (EGPF) etc.
No public airport, airfeild or aerodrome in the whole United Kingdom uses the word "aeroport" in the title.
It is not included in the Concise Oxford Dictionary 2002, which includes Scottish English dialect words.
A google search for the word "aeroport" (July 11 2005) did not yeild any results where the word was in English in the first 10 pages, neither for google.co.uk nor google.com
These sources are verifiable, the oxford english dictionary is available online (http://www.oed.com/), most people know how to use google (http://www.google.co.uk), uk airports are listed by the civil aviaiton authority (can't find it online, http://www.pilotweb.co.uk/content/weather/ gives uk weather reporting airports)
Perhaps this word is used elsewhere in Scotland? It is very easy to distribute misinformation over the internet in forums like this so could anyone provide a single reference refuting the above, which i can check?
go on, enlighten me...