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 | This page in a nutshell: There is no proscription against using the plural antennae in a radio context. Articles should not be changed to a different spelling without a sound policy-based reason |
It is frequently stated that using the plural antennae for electrical aerials is incorrect. Those who say this believe that there is a grammatical rule that the plural in the context of radio is antennas and in the context of biology (insect feelers for example) the plural is antennae. This may have crystallised into a firm rule in the US, but actual usage in the rest of the world, and even amongst American authors, is not at all as clear cut as this. There is no denying that antennas is the more common plural used in the context of radio, but antennae is frequently used as well.