IMO,
Starting to use official terminology will only achieve one thing - confusion.
We are collectors, not war office employees.
What's wrong with lugs, slider's and staybrite etc ?
These terms are collector's 'slang' which have been in use for many, many years.
Why do individual members feel the need to change this, especially when that change means using terms that collector's never used in the first place.
Just because newcomer's are unfamiliar with our slang, does not mean we should have to change it.
Officialdom has it's important place in this hobby, but this aspect of it, is purism gone mad.
STM.
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