I was on the field for the first flight of the Douglas DC-8. It had a stick like projection from the rear of the fuselage about where a tailwheel would be if it were a taildragger. It was at least 8-10 feet long. I was casully acquainted with Clyde Schleiper, test pilot for Douglas and he referred to the thing as a chicken stick. So much for the English language. The Oxford Dictionary adds many "new" words each year just because they are in common use. To Dr. Wogz remember what I think was said by Winston Churchill "The United States and England are two countries united by a different language". Now it seems as if Canada joins the league but then so do individual states in the U.S. of A. Y'all.