[Quilla]

Rested my mouse on canaille in pocono’s post and a definition appeared! Pretty cool stuff.

[RoosterRedux]

I did not notice that. Good job, Pocono.

I just learned some new html.

[poconopundit]

LOL. The "title" attribute was commonplace in the 1990s before hover-over javascripts became popular -- and as you know, for security reasons they are verboten on FR.

I guess we could say old tech is groovy again :-)  Kind of like FReepers: we may be out of fashion, but defending our freedom and the Republic are never out of style.

Hover your mouse over H. L. Mencken.

Hover your mouse over <span title="HTML is pretty simple"><u><font color=blue>H. L. Mencken</font></u></span>.

Actually, the <span> is not needed as long as you "wrap" the text to be titled with an underline, bold, or other tag such as:

Hover your mouse over H. L. Mencken.

Hover your mouse over <b title="HTML is pretty simple"><font color=blue>H. L. Mencken</b></font>.

[mdmathis6]

I saw the word and remembered it being used in an operetta.
From Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe”

Your lordly style
We’ll quickly quench
With base canaille!

(That word is French.)

Distinction ebbs
Before a herd
Of vulgar plebs!

(A Latin word.)

‘Twill fill with joy
And madness stark
The hoi polloi!

(A Greek remark.)

One Latin word, one Greek remark,
And one that’s French.