Forgive me for an off topic post, but I have to ask: When did ‘hone’ replace ‘home’? I may be showing my age or maybe it’s regional, but I was taught that you HOME in on a target, HOME in on a problem, use a HOMING device and HONE a knife. Is this a ‘clip’ / ‘magazine’ newspeak thing?
“Forgive me for an off topic post, but I have to ask: When did ‘hone’ replace ‘home’? I may be showing my age or maybe it’s regional, but I was taught that you HOME in on a target, HOME in on a problem, use a HOMING device and HONE a knife. Is this a ‘clip’ / ‘magazine’ newspeak thing?”
Apparently, home in and hone in are synonymous, or have become synonymous.