folx
English
editEtymology
editVariant of folks; while the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfolx pl (plural only)
- Alternative spelling of folks [1600s], later especially an eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English. [1800s]
- 1628 February 26, Thomas Button, in a letter to the Lord Vicount Dorchester, quoted in Some account of sir Robert Mansel ... and of sir Thomas Button (George Thomas Clark, Dowlais, 1883), p. 86:
- I presume yor lo. will fynde to be very stronge besides the qualitie of the peticonars to be lookte vppon, whoe if they be noe other then as folx [also fox][1] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, [...]
- 1857, Julius Caesar Hannibal, Black Diamonds, Or, Humor, Satire, and Sentiment, page 183:
- De kommitte told me dere wus a great gedderin ob de culored folx at Brudder Jonson's Eatin House, [...]
- 1879, M. Star, in The American Temperance Cyclopaedia of History (Joseph Beaumont Wakeley), page 185, ostensibly quoting one Missa Param:
- If some do, da hypocrites, and dat don't militate 'gains de siety; for cause da some hypocrites, dat proves dat some good folx.
- 1628 February 26, Thomas Button, in a letter to the Lord Vicount Dorchester, quoted in Some account of sir Robert Mansel ... and of sir Thomas Button (George Thomas Clark, Dowlais, 1883), p. 86:
- (now chiefly Internet slang, especially in LGBTQ slang and communities of color) Folks; people.
- 2004, Maximum Rocknroll, issue 255:
- This time around the fine folx of Rocktober bring us the greatest rocknroll[sic] moments in television history.
- 2018, Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed, →ISBN:
- I write this book with the goal of showing you that Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous folx are not a “was,” that we are [...still present.] […]
- 2004, Maximum Rocknroll, issue 255:
References
editAnagrams
editFranco-Provençal
editEtymology
editNoun
editfolx m (plural folx) (ORB, broad)
References
edit- faux [1] in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- folx in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Further information
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1403: “la falce fienaia” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[2] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 546: “faux” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “falx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 404
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