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My pet peeve is 'nape of the neck' and 'sole of the foot'
There's no other body part that has a nape or a sole, but we still keep using those phrases.
Things thay can have nape: Helmets — the back portion covering the neck area Chairs — the upper backrest where your neck rests Clothing — the back collar area (like where a tag sits on a shirt or jacket) Armor — the rear neck guard portion
Things that can have sole: Shoes (shoe sole) Socks (sometimes referred to as having a sole area) Hooves of animals (bottom part can be called a sole) Paws of animals (the underside pads are sometimes called the sole) Gloves (palm/underside of some work gloves called “sole” area) Ironing boards (bottom contact side sometimes called soleplate) Irons (the metal heating surface = soleplate) Some tools (e.g., woodworking plane has a “sole” = its flat bottom)
There’s no other body part that has a nape or a sole, but we still keep using those phrases.
In writing these redundancys are used to make the text feel more natural and to remove any ambiguity.
Without any context "my soles hurt" could mean that the soles of my feet are in pain, my shoes fit badly and the soles hurt me, or it could be a threath "im going to stomp you with the bottom of my feet"
I used to work in public health. I'd heard medical professionals using those terms and wonder.
They were talking about patients so the context was there already.
The other day, I was reading about a king crab whose spines/tubercles (depending on life cycle) each bore a halo of setae. I want to meet the prescriptivist who says it's strictly referential to light and throw a deep-sea benthic crustacean at them.
shout out to the Iron Halo from 40K
Well that's actually light too but shhh
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