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xkcd #3075: Anachronym Challenge
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Golf announcers have been calling 'fairway woods' 'fairway metals' for a while. But since most of them are largely made of carbon fiber these days, even that is misleading.
Isn't wood a sort of carbon fiber composite? Can we go back to calling them woods again?
Wood is sort of a composite material, made of cellulose fibers bound with a polymer called lignin.