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Windmill is a defacto synonym for wind turbines in most english speaking countries

• whamlastxmas 9y ago
  In the same way irregardless is a synonym for regardless, yeah I guess so.
  • yongjik 9y ago
    More like how a "bug" is a synonym for "error in a program", even though there's no actual bug stuck between vacuum tubes, not to mention there are no vacuum tubes any more, and they don't do computation like they did in the 50s any more, but I feel your pain.
• macmac 9y ago
  Not in the industry.
  • coryfklein 9y ago
    Good thing the NYT article isn't a whitepaper directed at industry engineers.
  • cjarrett 9y ago
    I worked in the industry for three summers, and they were interchangeable there. Additionally, they could be 'tur-bans' or 'tur-bines' as well.