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gordontd, on 2017-January-20, 09:20, said:

Maybe it won't be too late, but they may take the view that it hasn't caused a problem in the 54 years since the wording was first introduced...
They do have quite a lot else on their plate. Anyway, all we can do is wait and see.

Maybe this ambiguity just doesn't come up that much in actuality. I tend to make lots of incomplete designations, with the intended meanings as described in Law 46B, but I'm not sure if I've ever omitted the suit when ruffing and then leading a trump. But maybe I have, it's not something I think about a whole lot, so it doesn't stick in my memory much.

But I know for a fact that I've never run into a situation where someone made an issue of it. Then again, we've also had dozens of threads here about players picking up their cards instead of using the pass card at the end of the auction, but I've never encountered a problem with it at a real table.