Reply With QuoteTechnically, it's "air gun". But "airgun" is also acceptable.
One of the reasons that "airgun" is acceptable is because authors, like in Eldon Wolff's book "Airguns", use the term.
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What's the correct term? Airgun, or air gun. Or is both acceptable?
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Technically, it's "air gun". But "airgun" is also acceptable.
One of the reasons that "airgun" is acceptable is because authors, like in Eldon Wolff's book "Airguns", use the term.
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In the two dictionarys I have, in Collins its "air-gun", and in Chambers its "air gun", the NSRA refer to "airgun", I don't care as long as its not air weapon which always gets my back up!
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Not to be confused with the device fitted onto the end of a piece of hose connected to your compressor and used to blow swarf off your lathe.
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Jimmie,
Something similar :
Many Moons ago, when the shotgun certificates were like small rectangular pieces of bog-roll like size ripped of a roll.
The words they used on the certificate were 'shot gun', not shotgun.
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Russ
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It is all English to me
Nor the air tool (airtool, air-tool?) to tighten and remove wheel nuts (wheelnuts, wheel-nuts?) or lug nuts (lugnuts, lug-nuts?)Originally Posted by mel h
Slug gun (sluggun, slugun??) works
Would we write airrifle, or air rifle? The first, airrifle looks completely wrong to me.
Correct or not, I am not sure Jimmie. What I can say is that whichever way it is spelled, it sounds the same to me
My vote is air gun, as the term air describes the method (adjective), gun is the noun. Normally the adjective and the noun are not joined. Also, it looks correct.
I blame the Americans for all this abbreviating and amalgamating of words
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No ones mentioned Dough nuts
I like Them
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Abe,
And you only get two (2) per Dough
Have fun & a good Sunday,
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Russ
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seems I use 'airgun' but,'air rifle and air pistol". I guess my Crosman Model 1100 is an 'air gun'?
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"I blame the Americans for all this abbreviating and amalgamating of words"
Amalgamating of words? Would an American be able to say that let alone spell it?
I like amalgamating. I think I will apply it to my airguns, er, air guns, er air pistols, er, WTH, my toys.
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Shouldn't be air weapon ?
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TBF they may say AoW
That could likely frighten the neighbours by conjuring up all manner of visions of potential mahemShouldn't be air weapon ?
'pneumatic mechanism' has a soothing tone to it.
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In German, at least in the historic texts, airgun is Windbüchse, Windbüchsen (plural); an interesting situation comes up in German when it comes to "airgun shooter" in some early texts it is written as Windschützen but that is the specific term for a wind screen. Later texts use the term Windbüchsenschützen
in French it's Fusil à vent
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