Yeah, what is it with people calling turbines "windmills"?
They don't grind corn.
Is it supposed to be a some kind of cheesy insult? It just makes you sound stupid if you call them windmills.
They don't grind corn.
Is it supposed to be a some kind of cheesy insult? It just makes you sound stupid if you call them windmills.
Or perhaps you get angry at people who call light utility vehicles "trucks"?
Language evolves. People accept colloquial definitions. Wait until you learn about pencil lead, koala bears, dry cleaning, and peanuts. Windmill is absolutely acceptable if it's understood by people to mean wind turbine, which it is.
I think you know that “windmill” isn’t just a synonym for wind turbine but a politicised insult originating in the fossil fuel lobby.