>The joke is, "What does Hertz mean"? Why is it necessary to change the name of cycles to Hertz and explain Hertz as cycles? So we just laughed at it all.
Yes, right - and people invent all sorts of new words for terms that are - at some time or other - impopular, (e.g., "sex"). Since the dislike stems from the object, and not from the word itself, the cycle repeats after a while...
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
