Are you equally bugged by people calling the place where planes are parked
"the ramp" when it's not sloped and doesn't connect a higher place with a
lower place (except in the sense of nothing being perfectly flat)? Or
calling clusters of well known thin vertical hazards "antenna farms" when
nothing is grown or harvested there?

Let's not forget the flaps -- that don't.

And the throttle -- that doesn't.

Or "taxiing" and "Fixed Base Operator," for that matter. These are terms
that simply aren't logical, yet we use them all the time.

English often doesn't make much sense, except in context.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"