[r-t] Non-non-method non-method blocks

[Don Morrison]

I was interested to note that the methods committee collection is now
recording what its (err, sorry, the Council's) decisions consistently call
"non-method blocks". Even more interestingly, they seem to have
recognized that "non-method" is a non-good appellation, and appear to
refer to them exclusively as "blocks" with not a single "non-method"
in sight.

On the downside, if non-method blocks are just "blocks" what are the
subunits in many compositions that have been termed "blocks" for at
least decades, possibly longer? Is it just a bit of polysemy we must
live with, where no concern is paid to official records introducing
ambiguity that affects only things ringers say, not things explicitly
defined in the decisions?



-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
"Very few of the major philosophers have held university
chairs."   -- Will and Ariel Durant, _The Age of Louis XIV_