Icebox lives on

[Laurence Horn]

>On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Dan Goodman wrote:
>
>>Now, what explains "broom"
>
>As in "that thing I remove debris on the floor with"?
>
>  and "glasses"?
>
>As in the "reading glasses" i now purchase for $6 a pair, since I had
>Lasik surgery?
>
I think the idea was that brooms aren't made from broom any longer,
nor are glasses made from glass, but we still call them by those
names.

L