Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Forty-Five
[email protected] (HarryLime)
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> Will-Dockery wrote: > >> HarryLime wrote: >> >>> Will-Dockery wrote: >>> [email protected] (HarryLime) posted: >>> >>>> Will Dockery wrote: >>>> [email protected] (HarryLime) wrote >>>> in news:[email protected]: >>>> Will Dockery wrote: >>>> >>>> I wrote a monthly column for Playgrounds magazine for nearly twenty >>>> years, fond memories. >>>> >>>> See JLA Forums attachment below for an example of my monthly column >>>> published by Playgrounds magazine. >>>> >>>> "Banjist"? >>>> >>>> Seriously? >>>> >>>> Again, another name for a banjo picker. >>>> >>>> Look it up. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> Try banjoist. >>> >> >> >> Again , Banjist is a correct term for a banjo picker: >> >> ======= >> >> "Banjist" >> >> "A banjist (also spelled banjoist) is a person who plays the banjo. It is an alternative, less common term for a banjo player, often used in folk, bluegrass, and country music styles.About the TermDefinition: A musician who plays the banjo.Alternative Spelling: Banjoist is the more standard or common form, but banjist is also accepted and understood in musical communities.Genres: Common in bluegrass, old-time folk, jazz, and country music..." >> >> ====[End Quoted Text]==== >> >> Again, glad to clear up your confusion, Pendragon. >> >> 😏 > > > > "major dictionaries like Merriam-Webster and Cambridge do not list it as valid English." > > I'll stick with Merriam-Webster and Cambridge, thank you very much. > > Dumbass. In this case you're the dumbass, Pendragon, but the word " banjist " isn't worth months of argument, so, for now, I've posted my findings in a quick search, and I know you had to have seen those results as well if you were really trying. 😏[/quote] I'm sure that there are some ass-backward musicians who say "banjist," Donkey. Especially in the Deep South. However, no magazine editor would allow for an illiterate bastardization of a legitimate word to enter their publication. Not even in the Deep South. Dumbass. This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=709298620#709298620 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655