ink-pen

[Alice Faber]

--On Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:11 PM -0600 "Cohen, Gerald Leonard"
<gcohen at UMR.EDU> wrote:

> My thanks to Michael McKernan for his reply below, which I now share with
> ads-l. His point is well made, and yet if someone says he's writing with
> an ink-pen, "ink" here is not really needed for clarification.
>

I associate "ink pen" with the pin/pen merger region, so that the actual
contrast isn't with "pig pen" but with "hair pin".