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[Bozzer]

Piece of music for organ? (3))
I have RAG but can't see why, assuming. I am correct

[bibblebub]

a newspaper is an organ, i.e. a medium of publication, and a poor quality newspaper is a rag

a rag can also be a piece of music, the sort much favoured by Scott Joplin

[Bozzer]

Thank you much. As so often, it dawned on me than rag/organ/newspaper was the connection as soon as I posted the question. I knew the music bit. Incidentally when did "standout" become a single word?

[bibblebub]

Chambers does have it online http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=standout&title=21st but not in the printed version

[TheFrogman]

The earliest example of the noun 'standout' given by OED is from 1928 (in the US), and Chambers Dictionary of Slang dates the adjective to the 1930s (also in the US), although the earliest non-hyphenated example of the adjective shown in OED is from John Irving in 1978. Chambers has listed the noun 'standout' (though not the adjective) since at least the 9th edition (2003) without any 'geographic attribution', so although it's a definite import it's been established 'over here' for well over a decade...