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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26540

    No. The "A" is no more an English word than the "W" was...
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22127

      aguardiente

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26540

        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
        aguardiente
        Love one. Make mine a double!
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          acalanto

          Portuguese for lullaby

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            acalanto

            Portuguese for lullaby

            Bravo, hercule!!

            Yes - acalanto... It seems just as relevant to Debussy, Fauré and Chopin as "Wiegenlied"...

            (The stewards were engaged )

            Just teasing L'Uomo della Risurrezione

            Time for some serious B action, mercs... Sorry to be a silly A
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12844

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              No. The "A" is no more an English word than the "W" was...
              ... sometimes I think our calipasha is almost as naughty as moi-même.

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              • Anna

                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                ... sometimes I think our calipasha is almost as naughty as moi-même.
                Sometimes, I just wonder, amazed

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Per ardua ad astra, mes amis !
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    is it me ?
                    spent twenty minutes looking for a language where the word for lullaby begins with B .................... without success



                    B linking

                    Iago, Act 1, Otello
                    Turiddu, scene 2, Cavalleria rusticana
                    Orsini, Act 2, Lucrezia Borgia

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22127

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Bravo, hercule!!

                      Yes - acalanto... It seems just as relevant to Debussy, Fauré and Chopin as "Wiegenlied"...

                      (The stewards were engaged )

                      Just teasing L'Uomo della Risurrezione

                      Time for some serious B action, mercs... Sorry to be a silly A
                      excuse me asking but where did the origins of Port come in?

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        excuse me asking but where did the origins of Port come in?
                        It was a hint that you were looking for a Portuguese word...
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • cloughie
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22127

                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          is it me ?
                          spent twenty minutes looking for a language where the word for lullaby begins with B .................... without success



                          B linking

                          Iago, Act 1, Otello
                          Turiddu, scene 2, Cavalleria rusticana
                          Orsini, Act 2, Lucrezia Borgia
                          Brindisi

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            Brindisi
                            well done the cluff





                            just realised we had exactly the same question as recently as May

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              A C

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                              No noon but Janice and Tim and a cosmopolitan Maurice.

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... sometimes I think our calipasha is almost as naughty as moi-même.
                                trio of shockers!

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