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    Correct. In this country it is not a vehicle licence - it is vehicle registration, and the plate is a registration plate not a licence plate . And the terminology "number plate" became embedded in Australian English when all registration identifications were a simple number.
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    Don't get me started on "bathroom". (I once had a woman come up to me at work and ask if we had a public bathroom. I told her "No". So she wandered off to look for one. Had she asked for the toilets...)

    Now railway stations are called train stations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick130 View Post
    My gripe is that we tend to call them a number plate or rego plate, 'licence plate' seems a very US term to be
    Aaah! I didn't pick that up. Quite so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by travelrover View Post
    Yeah agree, as bad as “airplane”!
    what are we meant to call it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    what are we meant to call it?
    English English is aeroplane.

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    Some might think sacrilege, but it was done when the car was just another old sports car of little value.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rick130 View Post
    My gripe is that we tend to call them a number plate or rego plate, 'licence plate' seems a very US term to be

    No they are called "tags" in the US.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rick130 View Post
    English English is aeroplane.
    hmmmm, pretty sure thats a french word.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    hmmmm, pretty sure thats a french word.
    Definition of aeroplane noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

    aeroplane

    noun

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    /ˈeərəpleɪn/

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    /ˈerəpleɪn/

    (British English)

    (also airplane especially in North American English)

    (also plane British English, North American English)



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    a flying vehicle with wings and one or more engines

    aeroplanes flying overhead

    The aeroplane was carrying 350 people.

    in an aeroplane I've never flown in an aeroplane.

    on an aeroplane The president was never on the aeroplane at all.
    From here aeroplane noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

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    Anyone use 'Aircraft'?
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