"Mike Barnes" wrote in message
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In uk.d-i-y, Mary Fisher wrote:
"Bob Mannix" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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Splitting, by definition, is dividing something into two.

Sorry Mary, but you started the pedant sub-thread!

My dictionary has "breaking/dividing something into two *two or more
parts*" (including hairs!)

Which dictionary? And is that an exact quote?

Some cheapo one (the only one to hand). No it was a small part of the
definition.

It's wrong.

It's right when splitting is dividing something between people, e.g.
splitting the proceeds. But splitting logs is different.

Only by convention yes. If one were to build a hydraulic log splitter with a
tricorn blade you, presumably, would refuse to call the output split logs
even though they were indistinguishable from other split logs?

Bob Mannix