Popular song redirects here. For other uses, see Popular Song (disambiguation). Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or folk music.
The suade part that both words share has origins in the Latin root suadÄre, meaning âto urge.â In the case of persuade, the prefix per- means âthoroughly,â intensifying âto urgeâ and giving persuade its meaning of âto convince.â Think of dissuade as the opposite of persuade: the prefix dis- reverses the action of the root, giving the meaning of not ...
In examples to support the rule, convince is often contrasted with persuade, which may take to, of, or that followed by the appropriate construction: We persuaded him to seek counseling (or of his need for counseling or that he should seek counseling). The history of usage does not support the rule. Convince (someone) to has been in use since the 16th century and, despite objections by some, occurs freely today in all varieties of speech and writing and is fully standard: Members of the cabinet are trying to convince the prime minister not to resign.