Listen up people! Concrete and cement are not interchangeable words
Every time there's a reference in the news or in general conversation to cement steps, cement porch, curbs or building components, my husband has a nuclear meltdown. We both spent our careers in construction and every time we hear the word 'cement' used when the word they should be using is 'concrete', it hits our ears like chalk grating on a blackboard, or, worse, Yoko Ono singing. This mistake occurs frequently including several times on CTV television and their writers should know better. It's one of those petty annoyances like…