In my work I deal with words. I know a lot of words, a lot of nouns, and generally I know how to use them, but my idea of what objects those nouns actually represent is often vague. Gazing into the chaos of the toolbox I realised that, with the exception oh hammer, screwdriver, saw and a very few others, I could not match any of the tool words I knew with the tools in the box, still less with the one which wasn’t there and which I thought would probably do the trick.
Are pliers this
or this
?
And is this
a wrench ? If so, I thought I needed a wrench. By going
back to the supermarket I’d avoid the embarrassment of having to
ask. I went back to the supermarket (luckily it’s next door to our block of
flats), chose a
that looked strong enough, and also bought a small can of machine oil. The
had a hole at the end of its handle. I would put the screwdriver in the hole and twist it.