Why do you both write on, and take, a tablet?

[Bob Wright]

In ancient Rome, laws were published engraved on stones. These stones were "tables." Remember Moses?

Before the law was "set in stone" scribes wrote the law on a soft clay block, about the size of a common brick, using a sharpened stick called a "stylus." These bricks were small tables, or "tablets." They could be rubbed out for correction or re-use, or they could be fired to maintain the original. So today some folks still use a tablet and stylus, or a tablet and ball point pen.

But because of their shape, medicine pills so shaped are also "tablets."


Now you know.


Bob Wright

 

[CGDustDevil]

There it is! Proof once again that there's nothing new under the sun!

 

[graygun]

Why was a stylus used to play records?

 

[Jeepnik]

Why was a stylus used to play records?

Geesh, we just called them needles.

 

[Bob Wright]

Why was a stylus used to play records?

The stylus was actually used to cut the old records, somehow became synonymous
with the playing needle on old phonographs.

I believe "stylus" came from either a Greek or Latin word which simply meant "pointed object."


Bob Wright