Thank you Brian - tried to add 'if that was the writers intention to my posting but didn't have time'.
'folk" is a term used by the masses to describe more than just traditional song?'
The 'masses' by and large, tend to ignore folk song - surely we go to those involved for our information - unless you just want to score points of course.
Genealogy will always be an 'alogy' no matter how many people refer to it as an 'ology' (until somebody gets around to altering it official.
Jim Carroll