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#56225 02/18/02 12:41 PM
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One last, probably futile, but sincere cry to tsuwmperman:

Oh, yoooooooo hoooooooo! twsuwmperman???

Can you find a single instance, oh, great flying WordMan, of lyric being used anywhere in literature as the collective words in a single song?

If anyone can, you, man of words that can cut through steel, can!!

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Anu has spoken:

The first musical comedy to win the Pulitzer Prize, "Of Thee I Sing"... (music: George Gershwin, lyrics: Ira Gershwin, libretto: George Kaufman and Morris Ryskind)

(from today's theme word)




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Applause for wofa's performance! [clap-clap-clap -e]


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I'm bringing this thread back up because I'm wondering how many of you heard Jennifer Lopez announce the contending songs for the Academy Awards?

I have it from a good source that she announced each song, "music by ________________ (whomever)"....and, get ready for this, "lyric by _______________(whomever)." And she used the word "lyric" five times--consistent in using lyric for words of the songs rather than lyrics.

Did anyone else here notice this? And, if so, it makes me wish I could contact her script writer for the awards and find out why he/she chose "lyric"--is he/she of the old school? I'm very curious because what I believe is going on is there is an old-fashioned preference for lyric, but the masses are moving against the old rule--and, when the masses so move, those poor old dogs of rules eventually lie down and die.

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it makes me wish I could contact her script writer for the awards

It may well have been this character: http://www.hollywoodsquares.com/whoswho/theregularsbio.asp?CelebID=52


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Dear Faldage,

Thanks for the link. I couldn't access Mr. Valanch's link, but the information on the link you provided sure makes it sound possible that he could have written Lopez's script!

I'll continue what will probably be a lifelong interest in the history of the word lyric.

Constantly climbing mole hills,
Wordwind


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