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title: >
  No Blues
date: 2004-07-17 00:50
status: published
description: >
  Overzealous fastidiousness rears its ugly head once more


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<p>
It's a well-known fact that contemporary <q><abbr title="Rhythm and Blues">R'n'B</abbr></q> isn't really R'n'B. There may be Rhythm, but there's definitely no Blues.
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<p>
But rather than insisting that this isn't R'n'B music, it's possible to contort the phrase to allow the music to qualify as <q>R'n'B</q>. Firstly, it must be spelt <q>R n' B</q>, with one apostrophe-o'-omission, after the N. This apostrophe stands for an <q>O</q> and the music is <q>Rhythm-no-Blues</q> music.
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<p>
- Which suits nicely.
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