806-1: Feedback, Notes and Comments

Kidding on the square David Mackenzie e-mailed from Australia to argue that my association of on the square to Freemasonry was too tentative. “Freemasonry is redolent with references to square and on the square. If you’re on the square you’re a fine, upstanding, genuine fellow or you’re a fellow mason, or both. Anything or anyone qualified with square is similarly genuine and reliable. Its use has spread well beyond freemasonry, of course, and related meanings have branched out.”