ATG letter: My plea on the derisory ‘Penny Farthing’ term
MADAM – I have noticed an increasing penchant for editors, advertisers and auction companies to use the term ‘Penny Farthing’ in the pages of ATG when in fact they should be using the term ‘Ordinary Bicycle’, or, if there is a need to be more descriptive, ‘High Bicycle’.
The term ‘Penny Farthing’ is a derisory expression. In a similar way, nowadays one would not call …