david_h wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:
david_h wrote:
'Workpeople' sounds more like 2020 and I wonder if it's a recent editorial addition in anticipation of a readership who know left pond usage.
Oh, no you don't. "Workpeople" might surface now and again
I meant the aforementioned left pond usage - "In anticipation of a readership who know left pond usage
of the term 'knock up'". The occupation was 'knocker up'. In the UK, in 1881 or today, it did/does not need qualifying.
I see.
But I'm still unconvinced that "workpeople" is a later addition. English speakers come up with superfluities all the time.
david_h wrote:
but it's all getting rather laboured
Now I'm trying to avoid puns on class struggle.
david_h wrote:
The item in the OP is, in any case, a piece of left-pond whimsy.
Most certainly.
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