Dr. Marion Ceruti wrote: > These terms are in common > usage. I am not particularly satisfied that this is the best that can be done > with definitions, but this is what the words mean in American English.
I'm guessing that 99.999%, give or take a few, of the persons who've used the word "guitar" in the last 100 years have not looked up the word in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. > When > most people think of a lute, they think of a renaissance lute. When most people think of a lute, they think of an instrument that you hold crosswise under your lower lip and blow across a hole in the top of the head joint. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary may be useful for getting them in the right neighborhood of meaning, but it's utterly useless for a discussion among a bunch of people who know more about it than a non-specialist lexicographer. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
