The only people who don't seem to share a common understanding about what it means are, err about half a dozen, very clever and learned, members of Mudcat.

Yeah but what you've got to understand, CS, is that those people are all wrong. I mean, glueman and Suibhne are wrong, obviously, but they're not nearly as wrong - in fact, compared to all those people who don't even think about what 'folk' means, they're almost as right as me.

See? It's not easy being a clever and learned Mudcatter, you know...