3rd October 2003, 2:28 PM
"Adhesive bandages" is a lot better than either one, not being too long OR just plain not descriptive enough to differentiate it from common tape. I'll just call them band-aids though. It may be a brand name, but it perfectly describes them in a two-syllible way. I don't care if the company hates me for it or not (and I REALLY don't care if some idiot who actually thinks companies are TRYING to get us to refer to stuff by brand name gets upset about it, what is he some sort of clerk?).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)