[78-L] Durium Hit of the Week 'Hoard'

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Hans en Corrie Koert" <koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>
>> We call these paper envelopes in Europe "covers".
>> Is "sleeve" a better description?
> 
> Very good question, and resuming my role as "word police" I don't have a
> definitive answer.  Generally we call things made out of paper "sleeves"
> and those made out of cardboard "covers" but that is not always true. 
> What about the nice cardboard replacements with stitched sides that many
> record stores in Europe used?  I still tend to call them sleeves, but
> apparently Europeans call them covers (?)  What about the thin
> paperboard Tombstone things that Columbia first packaged their first Lps
> in?  I think I have called them by both names, sleeves and covers.  And
> when we got the cardboard version we always call them covers.  Shortly
> afterward cardboard covers came with paper or plastic "inner sleeves". 
> And then there are "picture sleeves", which are printed for specific
> records.  For this last reason, I think that this would put the HOW
> paper wrappers into the sleeve category.  Even though they are printed
> for specific records and are usually not generic, they are like the
> later picture sleeves, and are sleeves.  
> 
> Now, about that word "envelope".  In the philatelic world, what
> civilians call envelopes are called "covers" as in "first-day covers". 
> Too many words.

Okay..I was raised on "envelope" as a holder for a 78, and there was even one 
manufacturer who called them "recordvelopes". And nobody has mentioned "jacket" 
(a universal term for something housing an LP, I think) or "pocket" (a sleeve 
inside an album).

We had a chief engineer at the CBC in Edmonton who insisted on calling the 
paper inners "shirts".
> 
> But I have heard that it is NOT true that Eskimos have 50 different
> words for "snow".

Sacre bleu..nombair feefty one!

(Le old joke)

dl