On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Laurence Horn wrote: >>I had never heard "ink pen" until I moved to Knoxville in 1974 - the first >>place I heard it was in the Computer Center. >> > >Aha. Given what I (think I) know about the variety of English spoken >in Knoxville, that would be an area where you'd want to distinguish >between "ink pen" and "straight pin". Yup. Bethany