Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently

Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by mattlondon on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:45PM (#20097413)

Interesting - I assumed creche was an American term and widely understood. In the UK I've never heard it used much (we typically use "nursery" but I opted for creche based on the assumption that most readers are not UK-natives)

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by alex_duf on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:39PM (#20097936)

It's French, it means both nursery and the nativity scene. Each side of the Atlantic decided to land on the other definition

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by zupzupper on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:10PM (#20097659)

Nursery is way more common here in the States, creche is usually used when someone is writing sci-fi or fantasy and wants to sound fancy =)

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by wishinghand on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:34PM (#20097890)

I agree with that. I’ve only known crèches as places where a human body is held in order to be augmented or have a mind transfer to a body in a second crèche.

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by logfromblammo on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:20PM (#20097758)

Nurseries are for human children; creches are for ineffable alien offspring-rearing purposes.

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Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently by sapphire_tomb on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:03PM (#20097594)

I'm from the UK and I hear crèche used way more than nursery.

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