Does anybody know what simulator was used in the following story?

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/last-flight-sala-ibbotson-flightsim-2529269

Thanks!

At the beginning of the video, it says XPlane 11

Edited February 18, 20197 yr by Henry Street

Unfortunately, the weather conditions have forced authorities to call off further search and recovery efforts for the time being. The body of Mr Ibbotson will remain on the Channel bottom for the nonce.

On 2/18/2019 at 5:28 PM, n4gix said:

The body of Mr Ibbotson will remain on the Channel bottom for the nonce.

I’m sure that must be an auto-correction you missed. Nonce is a disparaging remark used towards homosexuals in Anglo-Saxon.

22 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I’m sure that must be an auto-correction you missed. Nonce is a disparaging remark used towards homosexuals in Anglo-Saxon.

Last heard by yours truly in The Sweeney I believe.

22 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I’m sure that must be an auto-correction you missed. Nonce is a disparaging remark used towards homosexuals in Anglo-Saxon.

I've always known that you folks are somewhat odd, but why you would abandon the venerable, ancient* definition and usage of a perfectly innocent word is beyond strange...

Since third grade I've always used "nonce" with the ancient meaning of "for the time being" ...

* 1150–1200; Middle English nones, in phrase for the nones, by faulty division of for then ones for the once ( Middle English then dative singular of the¹; ones once)

See: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/nonce

And: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonce

14 minutes ago, n4gix said:

I've always known that you folks are somewhat odd, but why you would abandon the venerable, ancient* definition and usage of a perfectly innocent word is beyond strange...

😀 I got the British meaning slightly wrong but it's still not a word you would use in polite company over here. I've never heard it used in the US context.

We have lots of slang. A cigarette is also known as a f*g which I certainly wouldn't use over there. 😁

35 minutes ago, sloppysmusic said:

Last heard by yours truly in The Sweeney I believe.

Before PC stopped things like that. 🙂

Well I have never heard of nor used the word before....I learned something today!

24 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

😀 I got the British meaning slightly wrong but it's still not a word you would use in polite company over here. I've never heard it used in the US context.

But, the US meaning of the word came from England to begin with!  I gather you didn't read much Chaucer in school.

From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonce

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Nonce first appeared in Middle English as a noun spelled "nanes." The spelling likely came about from a misdivision of the phrase "then anes." ("Then" was the Middle English equivalent of "the" and anes meant "one purpose.") The word was especially used in the phrase for the nonce, meaning "for the one purpose," as in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue" of Canterbury Tales: "A cook they hadde with hem for the nones To boille the chiknes with the marybones." The adjective "nonce" did not exist in print until the publication in 1884 of the New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (which later became the Oxford English Dictionary). The editor of that dictionary, James Murray, created the term "nonce-word" as a label for "words apparently employed for the nonce."

I suppose that since the actual usage of the word dropped to near obscurity over the centuries (see the graph in my post above), there was no one to know that the coining of the acronym "NONCE" was murdering this innocent adjective!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nonce

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Used by prison staff, to explain the segregation of inmates who were convicted of sex crimes towards children and the other inmates

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On
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Communal
Exercise

 

Don't forget the sister word of 'nonce', 'ponce'! In the US a place near where I live is actually called that.

😄

39 minutes ago, n4gix said:

But, the US meaning of the word came from England to begin with!  I gather you didn't read much Chaucer in school.

From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonce

I suppose that since the actual usage of the word dropped to near obscurity over the centuries (see the graph in my post above), there was no one to know that the coining of the acronym "NONCE" was murdering this innocent adjective!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nonce

 

You learn something new every day. No, I’m afraid I didn’t read any Chaucer either at school or afterwards. The acronym is actually quite inoffensive when you see how it was constructed.

Many words have fallen by the wayside or have been ‘adopted’ by others for quite different meaning. Gay being a classic example.

34 minutes ago, sloppysmusic said:

Don't forget the sister word of 'nonce', 'ponce'! In the US a place near where I live is actually called that.

😄

😁 Plenty of other unusual place names in the world. I’ll just link to this site rather than name them as they’d never get past the filter! 🤣

https://mashable.com/2016/10/12/funny-names-places-uk/?europe=true

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

😁 Plenty of other unusual place names in the world. I’ll just link to this site rather than name them as they’d never get past the filter! 🤣

https://mashable.com/2016/10/12/funny-names-places-uk/?europe=true

Or it would be censored into;

WNA-ton

WNA-ville

LittleWNA Lane

😛

Interesting names for places, but then....I have walked the 1000 steps to Crapola!

http://www.marineadventures.org/3050-2/