On 19/09/14 10:00, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Stuart Longland
writes
On 19/09/14 10:33, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:
The car
I learnt to drive in, a 1956 Ford Popular, also had a button marked
"START".

My computer at work has one called "Start" but ironically I use it to
"stop" it.

Here, it's perfectly obvious that "Start" refers to starting the
procedure you need to carry out to stop it. [Doesn't it?]

To be fair, that was always a rather silly jibe at Windows.

The Start referred to starting the Menu, the fact that the process to
turn off the computer was in the Menu hardly needs the whole thing to be
renamed. If they had called it 'Menu', as some OS's do (eg the Cinnamon
Desktop on the Linux I'm using now), someone would have made a
joke about not wanting a meal.