When I took over as Editor in Chief at Kitplanes way back when, I was introduced to the “Style Guide”, a document that sets standard ways of using words, punctuation, and capitalization so that the publication would be consistent. Based originally on a guide from a major international publication (was it the AP Guide? I forget....), it had been updated by an interim EIC who had all of the best intentions, but not a lot of first-hand experience with aviation at the hands-on level.
I tended to ride fairly rough-shod over such conventions, writing in the colloquial English of the workshop, hangar, and cockpit, much to the chagrin of my hard-working Executive Editor whose job it was to keep all of the authors (including me) within some sort of boundary so that - like a spinning child’s top - we didn’t fall off the edge of the table. Eventually, I think he just starting updating the style guide to match my scribblings, giving up on trying to keep me on the straight and narrow..... My copy of the guide is somewhere lost on my hard drive, and I could go look up nuts and plates to see what we were/are/aren’t supposed to be using....but that’s a lot of work - you know what I mean?
So now that we’ve beaten up the lowly thing with a female thread in the middle and two little tangs out each side for rivets, lets tackle the REAL evil of aviation - all those people who are continually, on a daily basis, trying to “Transition” airspace and airports!
What the heck are they trying to change them in to ..... ?