&gt; Its like referring to a horse-drawn cart as a &quot;medieval car&quot;. I don&#x27;t think calligraphers would get too upset about it--and maybe contemporary English actually allows it.<p>I see it as more like referring to medieval nobles as &quot;hunting with dogs&quot;, when the actual term in use at the time would have been &quot;hounds&quot;. If you don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s weird for, say, a Russian guy to refer to ancient letter forms using a Russian word for that sort of category rather than &quot;script&quot;, you also shouldn&#x27;t think it&#x27;s weird for English speakers to use their word rather than an archaism.