Careful Words

folks (n.)

  Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1.

A strong nor'-wester's blowing, Bill!

Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?

Lord help 'em, how I pities them

Unhappy folks on shore now!

William Pitt (—— -1840): The Sailor's Consolation.