ATG letter: Why Penny Farthing is the wheel deal when it comes to practicality
MADAM – With regard to Peter Card’s letter (ATG No 2391) regarding the use of the term ‘Penny Farthing’ instead of ‘Ordinary Bicycle’, it is the same as the term ‘Hoover’ when referring to a vacuum cleaner of any manufacture.
These nouns have come into the English language because they were the informal noun related to the…