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

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

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.

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