From A. H. DUNCAN
Like Feedback, I was upset when I first saw ‘ruggedised’ (6 July) in
an advertisement for an ohmmeter in the US journal Electronics in 1952 or
1953.
Until, that is, I saw Two Gentlemen of Verona at the RSC last month
and, hearing the seventh line of the play*, had to accept that the kind
of neologism that was good enough for William should be good enough for
us.
*’ . . . living dully sluggardiz’d at home . . . ‘
A. H. Duncan Emsworth, Hampshire
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