"You are the one pushing personal taste as definitive Jim."
No - I damn well am not Muskett
The definition I have given, which I use as a rough guide, was arrived at 8 years before I became involved in folk song - it was based on research carried out from the beginning of the 20th century.
Preference has at no time come into my arguments - I defy you or anybody to show where it has.
Unless you want to say that I prefer having a definition to not having one - happy to put my hands up to that one any time.
Jim Carroll