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#56195 02/11/02 04:38 AM
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WW, you're back! Utter delight! I've always heard song lyrics. I can't imagine saying lyric unless it was a one-word song!


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waxing lyrical because wordwind's back.

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Dear Keiva,

C, a, F, G = "Heart and Soul" yourself to death, ad infinitum!!! and since I don't know Latin, I'll make an uneducated guess that ad infinitum means something like "into infinity" ! :)

Beatles Regards,
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#56198 02/11/02 08:20 AM
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Actually I always refer to the words of a song as its 'words'.

'Lyrics' would only refer to the words of the songs in musicals.



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I went to an e-mail written by a musician friend of mine for my answer. He wrote to me,

"I wrote a song while I was in the hospital. I have the lyrics finished and some of the chords. We are going to try recording it tonight."


This is as close to an expert opinion as I can get on the subject. Unfortunately, he passed away about two months after recording the song.



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My $0.02 would go towards buying the "s" at the end of lyrics. In casual usage I would almost always say "I can never understand the lyrics to that song," but I think deep down I know that the singular is the "correct" form.

Note that you (well, I, anyway) would never question that the singular "melody" is appropriate when referring to the collection of notes that make up a song , but most of us want to make the words plural.


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the singular "melody" is appropriate when referring to the collection of notes that make up a song , but most of us want to make the words plural.

I rest my case.


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the singular "melody" is appropriate when referring to the collection of notes that make up a song , but most of us want to make the words plural.

I rest my case.

YeahButİ, my point was -- melody (singular) for collection of notes, why not lyric (singular) for collection of words?


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the collection of notes that make up a song , but most of us want to make the words plural


#56204 02/12/02 02:21 AM
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'Lyrics' would only refer to the words of the songs in musicals.

I beg to differ... that there is what they call the libretto.


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