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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3097610, member: 76194&quot;]Language is dynamic. I&#039;ve always heard celator used in the context of die engravers, and if a majority comes to view&nbsp; it as such, then eventually celator will mean die cutter in the context of ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, I got a new &quot;old&quot; record last week, and I was listening to a song called &quot;Why do fools fall in love&quot; by a talented young singer named Frankie Lymon</p><p>...a song recorded well before I was born. In one portion Frankie sings &quot;Why do birds sing so gay?&quot;. To my generation that word may sound confusing in that context, but that is because the meaning of the word changed drastically in the 30 years from the time he sang that song to the time I was born. As I said, language is not a static thing. Like human culture itself, we are always reinventing new ways to express ourselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that &quot;The Celator&quot; magazine had a lot to do with repurposing the word &quot;celator&quot; from fancy metal worker to meaning something akin to die cutter or die engraver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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