They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of The Spotted Cow.

Traditionally belting was used by certain character roles in musicals, usually the funny, quirky or feisty female roles.

You have to accept that a new world pushes out the old. The wheel turns.

Only very small and isolated communities display neither diglossia nor bilingualism.