26 Nov
2011
26 Nov
'11
3:06 p.m.
To redeploy some recent words of Tom Leinster, shingles is (as I know from painful first-hand experience) "a serious and often frightening condition." Yet I would not go so far as to insist that roofing shingles or siding shingles be outfitted with some other name, or to urge doctors or lawyers to refrain from speaking of "hanging out their shingles" when they open their practices. I think intelligent people can be trusted to understand even potentially ambiguous words in a correct, mature, context-driven way. Cheers, -- Fred Linton [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]