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Re: For professional musicians looking for a career change.

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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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Workpeople: click the link to see the frequency of the word's appearance in mostly American English

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... le%3B%2Cc0
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