pianist vs. piano player

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Thu Feb 7 21:02:55 UTC 2002


>A fiddle and a violin are not the same instrument.<

Fowler thought the substitution of the word "violin" for "fiddle" was an
instance of deplorable genteelism, but conceded that the usage had become
so widespread that to insist on the ("ordinary plain language") earlier
term would lay one open to the charge of eccentricity.
A. Murie



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