Well, I'll kick off the debate on SPDs. Once again, the emphasis seems to be on domestic (we all, or virtually all of us live in a home of one sort or another) so are the proposals an improvement or not?
Your assertion that no-one has checked could perhaps be turned around. Just have a quick internet search on lighting protection products and the theory behind lightning and you will see it's pretty much the current usage.
Technical English is not necessarily UK English (OED standard), and is certainly not where used in international standards.
Unfortunately, things change over time, including language, and the English I use at work now, and the English my kids are being taught at school, has a number of differences to the English I was taught at school. Instead of railing against it, I had a look at how quickly some parts of language actually changes ... and also how some things change rather more slowly.
A good example of the latter is a well-known four-letter expletive which, contrary to popular myth, does not have its roots in labelling of shipping containers of fertilizer (Store High In Transit) but comes to us almost unaltered from the Anglo-Saxon verb for taking a number two.
Your assertion that no-one has checked could perhaps be turned around. Just have a quick internet search on lighting protection products and the theory behind lightning and you will see it's pretty much the current usage.
Technical English is not necessarily UK English (OED standard), and is certainly not where used in international standards.
Unfortunately, things change over time, including language, and the English I use at work now, and the English my kids are being taught at school, has a number of differences to the English I was taught at school. Instead of railing against it, I had a look at how quickly some parts of language actually changes ... and also how some things change rather more slowly.
A good example of the latter is a well-known four-letter expletive which, contrary to popular myth, does not have its roots in labelling of shipping containers of fertilizer (Store High In Transit) but comes to us almost unaltered from the Anglo-Saxon verb for taking a number two.
