Greetings all!There's something I've been wondering about since I use FS9's ATC. They pronounce "alTIMeter" which neither technically nor etymologically makes any sense at all, instead of "ALtiMEEter". Is this just a mistake by Microsoft, or is it for some reason the accepted pronounciation in the world of commercial airline flying? I wonder, because when I was taking flying lessons back in the sixties, the gliding and GA instructors and other general aircraft guys/gals definitely pronounced "ALtiMEEter".Is this a generally accepted difference between the "big" stuff and the "small fry"? Be well!Jaap Verduijn.

I've always said it, and heard it said (my father is a r/w pilot) alTIMeter.. I would assume that the European/English way to say it would be ALtimEETer, as you said would be the "correct" way..Even tuning in ATIS here in the 'States in the real world, it sayd alTIMeter

Indeed,alTIMiter US EnglishaltiMEEter UK EnglishTwo countries divided by the same language :-)Aluminium anyone? :-)Ian

Thanks guys! It's a simple matter of "I say tomMAHto, you say toMAYto" then. Fair enough!Be well!Jaap Verduijn.

Although in "general terms" , we here in Australia also speak our own brand of English, I believe that it is largely based on the use of the Queens English rather than US English. However, having been around a/c for a large part of my life including time in the Australian Airforce, I must admit to using the US version of pronunciation for an al-TIM-eter.Barry

Greetings Barry!Things may have changed then. The flying lessons I took back in the sixties (must have been '66 or '67), were in Mildura and in Bacchus Marsh in Australia, and I distinctly remember my instructors calling the thingummy an altiMEEter. Fair enough, lingo's change all the time.Brisbane still standing, mate? My old home in 11 Free Street, Newmarket, still in one piece? Be well!Jaap Verduijn.

>Brisbane still standing, mate? My old home in 11 Free Street,>Newmarket, still in one piece? Hi JaapAny similarity between the Brisbane of today and that of 1967 is purely co-incidental!!! :)Barry

Greetings Barry!Yes, it's a loooooong time ago! But I still remember the taste of several Brisbane beers, like Gold Top (too sweetish, never liked it much), and Four XXXX (slightly better). I usually stuck to the Victorian stuff, like Abbots Lager, Melbourne Bitter, Victoria Bitter and the highly enjoyable likes of them. But yes indeed, Brisbane must have changed a lot. In my days there, even the trams were still running...Be well, mate!Jaap Verduijn.

Definately TIM not MEE.

Never mind aluminum, I want to know why I got slapped when I suggested to an English tourist that she keep her money in a fanny pack instead of a purse. :)Dan

Greetings Paul!Last question popping up then: Why? You don't say "al T I T ude", I guess, so why call a thing that is an altitude measurer (that's what "alti"-"meter" breaks down into) an "alTIMeter"?I'm neither English nor American, so there's no chauvinism in my observations (grin)! But both etymologically and technically the pronounciation "alTIMeter" simply makes no sense, so it seems to have been originally introduced by a person who didn't understand the actual meaning of the word, or of its constituting components. Would anybody know how this came about, and when?Be well!Jaap Verduijn.

Beats me Jaap, there's many weird pronounciations in the english language, do you call an Elephant an Ele-pe-hant? or an elep-hant? Same thing I guess.

>>both etymologically and technically the pronounciation "alTIMeter" >simply makes no sense>And when did you fall under this delusion that the English Language somehow ever "made sense?"LOLDavidI never learned a language, so I have to talk English.

I say all-TIM-iter, or if I can remember it after .1111111 of a second "the altitude thingy";)

Two words ALTItude and METER, combine and shorten to ALTIMETER and pronounce the same as in the two separate words. Why not do it the easy way and call the gauge an altitudemeter - no such things as a TIMETERS they're called timepieces:-roll