Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California

Stephanie Cosme, 32, was killed last year when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an aircraft in California

A US air force civilian contractor had become disoriented recording data at an airport in California last year when she walked into a jet’s rotating propeller and was killed, officials said on Friday.

In a statement outlining the findings of a report into the contractor’s death, the air force materiel command said that 32-year-old Stephanie Cosme was mortally injured on 7 September when she inadvertently walked into the rotating propeller of an MQ-9A that was parked at Gray Butte airfield.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
    111·
    9 months ago

    Actually we had a reason, back in the colonial era printers charged by the letter. Hence a lot of words became simplified, solder keeping its silent l is a bit weird though. Also solder is pronounced soder, the English latinized their dialect awhile back for some fucken reason.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        9 months ago

        In solder the l is silent, the Romans pronounced it with an l but by the time it got to English it had been dropped. Blame the French. Frankly Latinizing a dialect seems a hell of a lot harder than just changing the spelling to sauder, soder, or sodder which I have seen as acceptable alternatives to the frankly weird solder.

        • TwanHE@lemmy.world
          83·
          9 months ago

          I’ve never heard it spoken without the l. Neither in England nor here in the Netherlands.

        • cyrl@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 months ago

          10 years in electronics, and I’m yet to hear solder once despite working for an international firm.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            That has to do morseso with the rise of soldering as a semi common method of welding or whatever you want to call it. Before the 20th century soldering was a blacksmiths use meaning it was a much rarer word to hear. Most folks will look at the spelling and assume thats how its pronounced. Hell most folks in my area who are younger than 30 pronounce it with an l.

            Also the singular sold is still preserved in slang. Namely ad sod. Soldering was a filling method, and a person getting filled is called getting fucked. So to sod someone is to fuck someone.

    • force@lemmy.world
      32·
      9 months ago

      Soldier is pronounced with an /l/ in most English dialects. I actually can’t think of a major variety where it isn’t.