Correct to call 'em DIKES?

[tomg]

> Is it politically correct to call diagonal cutters "DIKES"
> anymore?  I've been doing it for years, but if it's going to
> lose me some business I better start changing my ways.
> 
> Robert

I guess you could call 'em "Nips". That might offend all women .... but you
can still order nippers. I haven't seen a pair of dikes for sell in years
and that's ok. I would much rather have my hands on nips than dikes
anyway....:-) If you can buy dikes you can call 'em dikes!
-tg