Language usage shifts. But the material I'm interested in stays static. I don't care what terms others use to define the music that interests them, I'd just like to be able to use a term defining the music that interests me without too much confusion. I don't use 'folk' because today it means something different to what it once did. I use 'traditional songs' purely because I (obviously wrongly) assumed most people still agree on what that means. I guess it doesn't though, so those of us interested in umm very old songs, will have to coin another fresh term to describe them. Maybe I'll resort to SO'P's rather longwinded but descriptive English Speaking Traditional Folk Song and Balladry from now on. Gonna be a bugger for creating threads on Mudcat though!