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When Boarding, Do You Get 'On' Or 'In' The Plane?  
User currently offline757PF From United States, joined May 2001, 175 posts, RR: 0
Posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 270 times:

Any English profs out there?

I always use "get on the plane"....but is this technically grammatically correct?

How about this similar dilemma........."Someone is sitting IN or ON my chair"?
You always say "in my chair", but this is not technically correct either is it, Professor? Since you're not actually sitting INSIDE the bowels of the chair. You sit ON the chair.

Quite a hornet's nest, if you ask me!

Oh......for a life?  Smile/happy/getting dizzy

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User currently offlineN312RC From United States, joined Aug 2000, 2639 posts, RR: 27
Reply 1, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 250 times:

I always walk down the jetway and get ON the plane.


We know why you fly... Well, sorta..
User currently offlineJAL From Canada, joined Apr 2000, 4367 posts, RR: 9
Reply 2, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 246 times:

It's "Get on the plane".


Work Hard But Play Harder
User currently offlineSccutler From United States, joined Jan 2000, 4007 posts, RR: 35
Reply 3, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 245 times:

Continuing the porting of nautical themes and terminology to aviation, it would be "on" or "on board," never "in," which is what you get when you enter a car or other such pedestrian and mundane piece of transport.


...three miles from BRONS, clear for the ILS one five approach...
User currently offlineRyanb741 From United Kingdom (England), joined Mar 2002, 3208 posts, RR: 22
Reply 4, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 244 times:

I just say 'I board the plane'.


I used to think the brain is the most fascinating part of my body. But, hey, who is telling me that?
User currently offlineJwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10017 posts, RR: 29
Reply 5, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 236 times:

You go into the plane to get on the plane  Smile


I wish I were flying
User currently offlineTransactoid From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 788 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 229 times:

Either/or

User currently offlineAmerica West From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 215 times:

I get on the plane.  Smile/happy/getting dizzy

User currently offlineSophieMaltese From United States, joined Feb 2001, 2064 posts, RR: 4
Reply 8, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 216 times:

I've known some people who say when they go somewhere in the car they "get down."

"I drove to the store and got down (got out of the car) and went inside the store."

People here also say things like "I went by my Mama's house."


User currently offlineMalibuAir From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 211 times:

the chair thing it depends. If it is a chair with arms, then its 'in' the chair, if its one without arms its 'on' the chair. I get 'on' the plane.

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