Originally Posted by
hugolover
Well, I know a few LO employees too and I never heard anyone call it Okecie, nor do I regularly hear Polish say I'm going to Okecie etc. I'm sure it happens with the old-timers but the first mention of it being Okecie that I had heard was from A-UK on this Forum. WAW is otherwise called "Warsaw Airport", "Warsaw Chopin" and a distinction is drawn from WMI which I find is just called "Modlin".
Tegel is called Tegel, no one calls it Otto Lilienthal etc. The flights are to "Berlin Tegel" and "Warsaw Chopin" I hear on the planes... Perhaps andywaw is thinking along the lines of Tegel where Alt-Tegel is mistaken for TXL on the U6 line and it genuinely is pointed out as not being the site of TXL. When I lived in TXL I remember it being on tourist maps and info.
I regularly call it Okęcie to the point I always forget which city has Ławica and which one has Okęcie (though I lived in one for 10+ years and the other for 3+!) and have to spend two seconds thinking before speaking to a cab driver as not to mess it up. I do have old parents though, so maybe they imbued bad habits in me
(I also find the the hyper-correctnes kind-of bemusing. We all understood what the original posted had in mind, the correction is just pointless nitpickery, although, as I said, somewhat funny.
Some users of this forum have habits of doing the same with "Swissair" => "Swiss" — and I understand that there was a "Swissair" at one point —but pretty sure no one is confused which airline someone is asking about when referring to a connection they're gonna have in 2018.)