I’m French and get mocked for saying sweatshirt instead of sweetshirt (as French do)… It’s a real conundrum.

But what if you bend the fiber ? “Clearly, such fibres would be less suitable for high fibre-count cables; they would be stiffer and less bendable, both from a mechanical and an optical point of view. For example, their critical bend radius would increase from 4.2 cm to 8.4 cm and 16 cm, respectively, in the examples above (Fig. 4b)” 4.2 cm to 8.4 cm and 16 cm, so maybe only for undersea cables.