Date: Mon, 11 Dec 89 18:15 EST From: Kent M Pitman <KMP@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com> ... The situation is analogous to the naming of the "funny little thing at the end of a shoelace that keeps it from fraying". I hear there's a name for the thing, but the fact is that it's not in the standard dialect which most people speak ... "aglet"