I can't understand this?

[Jim_Rogers]

What's in a name?

In high school, I took geometry, and:



these shapes were named.

However this shaped tool:



is called a speed "square."

It isn't square at all.

If anything this is more a speed square:



But to be technical it really should be called a speed rectangle.  ;D

From now on, I'm going to try and change the name of this:



to speed triangle....... :D ;D

[Dave Shepard]

Then what would you call a framing square? Two very long skinny rectangles joined at right angles. :D I always wondered what was so speedy about a speed square triangle anyway. ;D


Dave

[Loghead]

Jim I would agree, :D and my framing square should be an framing L its not square atall unless you have two then its a rectangle?????  

[LeeB]

You fellers weathered in today?

[Radar67]

It's called a speed square because carpenters use it to speedily guide their Skil saw squarely across the end of a board.  ;)

[ljmathias]

Sounds like too much time on their hands alright.... Wait till Jim makes it down to Southern Mississippi and has to put up with us naive, waiting to be educated timber framers in the making- no extra time then.

I always thought it was called a speed square because you could whip it out of your toolbelt, mark something and slide it back into a side pocket really fast.  The square part?  I would have thought that was obvious- it's an adjective or a verb, not a noun.

Lj

[Radar67]

I'll make sure I bring my squarangle by to let Jim have a look at. 

[Don P]

I guess this was taken  ;D

Great Neck® Squangle (Square-Angle)

And then I've heard guys call them that, or that's what I handed them  :D.

[shinnlinger]

I though the speed square had to do with it's ability to very quickly mark almost any angle you wanted....

[Tony]

       My 7yr old just asked me the other day, why the triangle was called a square  :D :D  I'll tell him that somebody is working to change the name.

                        Another problem solved by the FF.

                              Thanks,    Tony   8)

[Raphael]

When working with a transit, I call that triangle thing a 'plastic Jesus', because it will stand up and show you the way.  Otherwise I call it useless.   ;)