Attitude?

[Everskyward]

Seriously, you don't think you would have noticed? It jumped off the page at me and I was not looking to nit pick either. Though I have been in aviation maintenance for a long time, I am still a fairly low time private pilot but to me it was an error that a high time commercial pilot should not have made and that another would or should notice and the editors should have caught it. It is Aviation 101 level stuff.

I don't read pieces like that with fact-checking in mind. It's just his story. It could all be made up.

But it doesn't bother me when people write about the tarmac when they mean the ramp either.

 

[GlennAB1]

I once hired Jesus to clean my old pool

My Father-in-law (rest his soul), who lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, had lawn boys; Jesus 1, Jesus 2, and Jesus 3.

 

[mscard88]

My Father-in-law (rest his soul), who lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, had lawn boys; Jesus 1, Jesus 2, and Jesus 3.

Shoot George Foreman has that beat!

George Foreman's Ten Children

1. Natalie Foreman
2. Michi Foreman
3. Leona Foreman
4. Freeda George Foreman
5. George Edward Foreman Jr
6. George Edward Foreman III
7. George Edward Foreman IV
8. George Edward Foreman V
9. George Edward Foreman VI
10. Georgetta Foreman

 

[James331]

My Father-in-law (rest his soul), who lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, had lawn boys; Jesus 1, Jesus 2, and Jesus 3.

Jesus cubed?

 

[SoCal RV Flyer]

Seriously, you don't think you would have noticed? It jumped off the page at me and I was not looking to nit pick either. Though I have been in aviation maintenance for a long time, I am still a fairly low time private pilot but to me it was an error that a high time commercial pilot should not have made and that another would or should notice and the editors should have caught it. It is Aviation 101 level stuff.

Yeah, I thought it was a rather glaring error, right up front in the piece. Gotta spend time crafting the lead, or you'll lose the reader for the rest of the story.
If the author didn't catch it, an editor should have...maybe it was on a Monday, before his first cup of coffee...

 

[35 AoA]

Did I just miss another AoA fight? Damn my luck…….

 

[Lindberg]

Homonyms?

Spelling. No writer will ever confuse right, write or wright.

Except those are merely homophones, not homographs.

 

[Lindberg]

• The Attitude of the airplane is all about the angle between the longitudinal axis of the airplane and a level attitude (defined as whatever makes the airplane fly without the altitude changing).

At what airspeed?

 

[avongil]

Unsafe at any airspeed.

 

[Hank S]

Except those are merely homophones, not homographs.

The topic was homonyms.

hom·o·nym
ˈhäməˌnim,ˈhōməˌnim/
noun
plural noun: homonyms

each of two or more words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins (e.g., pole1 and pole2); a homograph.

• each of two words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling (e.g., to, too, and two); a homophone.

BIOLOGY

• a Latin name that is identical to that of a different organism, the newer of the two names being invalid.

I had to look up homograph and homophones to make sure I understood them correctly, not having heard either term before. Either way you slice it, the P&P article author's diction was confused.

Wikipedia makes it much less complicated, which is more in line with the general public's understanding:

In linguistics, a homonym is one of a group of words that share the same pronunciation but have different meanings, whether spelled the same or not.​

‎
But again, this is only part of the discussion. Most seem to think that he wrote "attitude" and placed the definition of another word/phrase beside it (hopefully through carelessness).