![]() |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#19
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
On 2005-10-08, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
In the base that Canada uses for aircraft registration, when are letters numbers? All of them, as previously explained. (As an aside to all the pedantry that's bouncing around this thread, I think you must realise that 'numbers' is just an American figure of speech; after all, in the US plane registrations are colloquially known as 'N numbers', even though quite frequently the last one or two digits is a letter, and is probably not intended to be base 36! In most other countries, we just colloquially know our registrations as 'G-reg' or 'D-reg' or.. etc. without even mentioning the word 'numbers'. In this part of the world, car registration plates are colloquially known as 'number plates' even though they don't just have numbers, well, unless you live in Guernsey). -- Dylan Smith, Port St Mary, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|