Banisters: supporting heritage, challenging thought

Do you trust AI? I don't. Maybe you should read this and realise why I don't.

I have a gripe ,because the use of the word "banister" is noticeably being used incorrectly more and more these days.

Schoolteachers are emailing homework to students, and students are emailng their completed work back to their teacher for marking.

I think this is very worrying, and just from a small amount of  research today, I discovered that the Internet is filling up with some incredibly incorrect information. So with today's 'trend' of schoolkids being used by I T, frankly, the future's not looking very bright at all. So as a simple start I typed in the word 'banister' to the online Cambridge dictionary, one of the two world renowned University towns in the UK, alongside Oxford.

 

I took the screenshot below earler:

 

Now compare this definition above, given by the world renowned "Cambridge" Dictionary, and play 'spot the difference' with the pic below, which is what I was taught as a student myself years ago, and later taught as a Lecturer who was promoted to Head of the entire Department and a licetiate of City and Guilds London Institute, and a Professor (so I wasn't a bad Lecturer really) 

Now think how much you can really believe all you see online these days.

 

I know for an absolute fact, having worked and been good friends with many, many traditional, 'old school' Carpenter & Joinery Craftsmen that 'Balusters & Handrail' is the correct terminology, I also know that a Neurologist named 'Roger Banister' was famed for running the 1st ever recorded 1 minute mile in under 4 minutes in 1954.

So a human being; a highly educated athlete, is actually being replaced by a machine? 🙄

 

But what's more concerning is that people today just believe the complete and utter lies that they read on a machine these days!

Look at this page, which we created last year, free of charge to people who genuinely want to learn, (the word "genuinely" opens another can of worms frankly, but I'm leaving that can well alone.)

So just have a look, and learn a lot more useful (and correct) terminology about traditional buildings - HERE

 

And think about what's really going on.