Joe, you might have missed the author's clever use of language if they wrote 'for all intensive purposes. '

An editor is not a prufereeder, and I've been both. Neither are English teachers. How it works is that a proofreader must faithfully hold a typesetter to the copy as submitted. And an editor's first responsibility is to find and support the voice unique to the author.

In neither case is there room to exercise personal taste. So I'm with mg, and my experience supports her nicely put point.

Now-- we singers just want the damn book. Don't be the bottleneck! When I tell friends you're holding it up they'll have my hide!

After all as pointed out above we'll just Folk Process each song as we like anyhow. You can always add a hidden note in the text to cover any cringe-causing 'mistakes.'

~S~