The confusion is endless...what about further and farther, another pair that send me screaming to my Strunk & White "Elements of Style." My English friend says she just sticks with further as it sounds better. Strunk claims farther is used for distance, further for time or quantity. Good as this little book is, it doesn't cover everything. Folk is listed only as a collective noun equivalent to "people." There is no mention of music at all!

Don Firth....thanks for a useful site for a grammatically challenged writer.