fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
- Joined
- May 3, 2007
- Messages
- 24,787
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- Location
- Central Virginia, USA
- Guild Total
- 5
The phrase "Hone in" for example never existed before the last decade**, the real term is "home in" as in homing pigeon and even more precisely "homing signal" radio navigation aids and direction finders.
Get someone with the right accent and both phrases begin to sound the same. The "problem" didn't exist until someone had to write things down.
Ignoring accents, in my youth the previous generation sharpened knives by hand and whetstone and a well sharpened blade had been "honed in". I can argue that the terms mean the same thing - using an iterative or repetitive process to improve something.