I see.david_h wrote: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.Nanohedron wrote:Oh, no you don't. "Workpeople" might surface now and againdavid_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.
But I'm still unconvinced that "workpeople" is a later addition. English speakers come up with superfluities all the time.
Now I'm trying to avoid puns on class struggle.david_h wrote:but it's all getting rather laboured
Most certainly.david_h wrote:The item in the OP is, in any case, a piece of left-pond whimsy.