SEP 14, duplication: hoi-polloi

 

 a) Reprise of material posted on September 14 in prior years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, Brickworks 1 (photo-collage)
2021: variant Nantucket limerick, Bay-Stater (illustrated poem) 
2022: Ontario nostalgia, native cactus (illustrated poem)
2023: cinematic guide, gainless, M*A*S*H (poem)

To access the details of any item in slide format, type its title, as displayed above in red font (e.g. ... Brickworks), into one of the two search bars at the the top of your blog-page. Underneath the slide(s) for each entertaining delight that you discover, you will find a clickable link that lets you easily explore a more widespread collection of blog-stuff (verse, photos, wordplay, song-lyrics etc.) on the topic of your choice. 

b) Today's Offering (Sep 14, 2024): 

Authors' Note: 

The (re)duplication hoi polloi derives from the ancient Greek term for 'the many'. This expression, like its close cousin riff-raff (also a reduplication), has been used in class-conscious England for severlal centuries; similar expressions, tinged with disparagement include plebeian, and the great unwashed In a recent inexplicable twist, as described by speedysnail, hoi polloi has come to be used, in some circumstances, to mean the exact opposite.

Readers willing to go down an internet rabbit-hole can easily get to a collection of more than a dozen other short verses SHORT VERSES  in which we have dealt with specific reduplications. 

If interested you could also discover three fairly lengthy PATTER-SONGS about this fascinating linguistic phenomenon. These songs form an important part of our cycle of 9 songs about "Word Pairs".