Quoting Michael Loo to Ruth Hanschka on 02-26-19 10:08 <=-

W.S. Gilbert's
'twould fill with joy
And madness stark
The hoi polloi!
was, er, dubious. Merriam says he was okay, but the last
reliable version of that authority was published in 1934.

That's about when mine was published, but it's currently cowering in
a cupboard after exposure to modern "English".

Had a discussion recently with a professor of English
whose academic specialty was pop culture, if you can
believe such a thing exists, and a student of same;
I asked about the difference between rap and hip-hop.
I didn't get a straight answer, and half of the
terminology they used I had no idea what it meant.

They're speaking a sublanguage which might as well be foreign... and
they probably thought they /had/ given you a straight answer..... ;)

ttyl neb

... "Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy."

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