S vs Folk - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
* J. R. Green
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
*1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
*:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
(music) Folk music.
(plural only) People in general.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (plural only) A particular group of people.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun folk is
people.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}folk
English
Alternative forms
* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)Adjective
(-)- folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics
Noun
(en-noun)- The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes