Thursday, July 01, 2010

Varieties of pop

Switzerland is hardly famed for sparkling pop, read a side heading in The Times.

Well no, but then which country is, I wondered, with ginger beer in mind. Surely pop fame is always very local, according to taste.

Turned out to be an article about pop music, so I had better check that it is not a recognised category, like hip hop.

Doesn’t seem to be, though the first result Google gave me attributed that quality to a Canadian group whose name I am certainly too old & staid to repeat on this blog.

But what’s this sparkling pop News and Other Resources ZDNet - a whole web site devoted to the topic. And so I learned that POP also stands for Post Office Protocol.

Never too old to learn.