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Thread #139957   Message #3217257
Posted By: Genie
02-Sep-11 - 05:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fossilised phrases
Subject: RE: BS: Fossilised phrases
Interesting to be reminded that record "albums" were originally individual 78s bound together like the pages of a photo album. But once the term came to mean "a collection of songs on recording" -- as distinct from a "single" -- I think it applied equally to a vinyl disc, a cassette, or a CD.   There's nothing about the term "album" that suggests wax or vinyl, any more than the term "photo album" refers to paper and not to digital formats.

@leeneia
[['crank the engine' when engines have not had cranks since the era of the Model T Ford]]
Even more out of sync with current technology is the use of the phrase "Crank it" to mean "Turn the volume (on a radio or CD player, etc.) up very high."