On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote:
> But one optical device in question is called a binocular, not binoculars! > (Binocular is a pair of monoculars or telescopes.) You are correct, and this usage is observed by professionals in the field. For example, on Zeiss's web page: "This is corrected by folding in or separating the barrels of the binocular." Leica: "the most powerful binocular in the 42mm class" However, "pair of binoculars" is so much more common in colloquial American English, that it sounds stilted to talk about "a binocular" as a layperson. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
