On Thursday 11 November 2010 14:18:59 John Cooper wrote: > I certainly don't want to see > others thinking that is the correct term, as the majority don't use it.
So a thing is only correct if hoi polloi call it so. So Einstein was wrong because no-one was saying what he said, though many do now. Stevenson was wrong, because no-one else had built the Rocket. The Wright brothers were wrong because no-one else believd in aeroplanes or used the term. Schlieman was wrong when he said that Homer's Mycenae existed, because everyone else in the world said that it did not. The plural of that tomahto to which Sean referred is tomato's ( or tomatoe's)? That is logical and even semantic nonsense. Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
