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I was reading a novel and rolled my eyes when the author described ammo crates of "clips" for Uzis. While I can understand some terminology sticking around because it only ceased making logical sense a few years ago, how the heck is "clip" still commonly and mistakenly used to refer to a magazine? I thought clips went the way of the dodo in the 60's and it seems as if people should have stopped using the term by now for the same reason no one uses "carburetor" as an example of a car part. Because anything using them is an antique, and anyone who used them in combat is in a retirement home.

I was reading a novel and rolled my eyes when the author described ammo crates of "clips" for Uzis. While I can understand some terminology sticking around because it only ceased making logical sense a few years ago, how the heck is "clip" still commonly and mistakenly used to refer to a magazine? I thought clips went the way of the dodo in the 60's and it seems as if people should have stopped using the term by now for the same reason no one uses "carburetor" as an example of a car part. Because anything using them is an antique, and anyone who used them in combat is in a retirement home.

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts (edited )

Drives me nuts. It doesn't just apply to guns, either. I tried to read Hunger Games when it was popular and the author kept calling quivers "arrow sheathes". Deal breaker.

If you're going have your main character be an archer, maybe you should at least do some cursory research.

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I tried to read Hunger Games when it was popular and the author kept calling quivers "arrow sheathes".

Obviously the character was using one inch long individual sheathes just long enough to fit the arrowheads. Unfortunately in the movies they had to change to a quiver when the arrows kept falling out or getting broken.