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Thread #9030   Message #57980
Posted By: Alice
10-Feb-99 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: What do you call a bunch of folkies?
Subject: RE: What do you call a bunch of folkies?
an 'altogethernow'
a 'one-more-time'
By the way, did you know that a 'school' of fish comes from a misprint of the word 'shoal'? Shoals of fish are of course common in folk lyrics, but today the word 'school' is common, but only because 'shoal' was misspelled and the word 'school' came into use. Really. I do NOT have my tongue in cheek. Christy the Wordsmith told me, and she is always right when it comes to word origins.