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Most reggly in Febbry,[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT] -
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We'll be told off and shunted to the 'set your teeth on edge' thread if we carry on!Comment
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... moppin' his for'ed with a hankerchief from his weskit pocket.Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostComment
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Although I had "electrocution lessons" at age 12 so I could sing the treble solos in Purcell anthems, I still get picked up from time to time. The other day it was "chrischuns" - it hadn't occurred to me that, correctly pronounced, the word has three syllables!Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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... I think your 'chrischuns' is perfickly correct.
Don't be seduced by them high anglicans with their 'salvay -see - un', 'redemp - see - un', 'glori-fi-cay- see-un' , 'dam- nay- see- un' nonsense...Comment
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It's definitely "chrischun" here, and "sol-jers" (I've always sung it as so-ol-jers rather than "sol-di-ers"Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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Well, I'm relieved to be able to admit that I've never sung it and bound to confess that I would never want to! What is "Trial and Conflict" doing at the bottom right of the page? Since the "music" here was composed by Arthur Sullivan, shouldn't that be "Trial by Jury"? (not that this would seem to make it any more relevant to this awful non-Pacifist ditty). I think that Sullivan did better when wearing a Pinafore in a Gondola and writing about the pay rates in Penzance...Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostIt's definitely "chrischun" here, and "sol-jers" (I've always sung it as so-ol-jers rather than "sol-di-ers" )
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Does it come from the Sal-va-ti-on Army hymnal, perhaps?Originally posted by ahinton View Post
(Btw, surely some early settings of the Magnificat in English are notated like that?)Comment
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Baring-Gould at his very bestOriginally posted by Pulcinella View Post. Last time I sang it, circa 1969, was surprisingly in the very high Anglican surroundings of Pusey House. It followed a sermon by Bishop Trevor Huddleston, I can't imagine he chose it.
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Mon Dieu! I shudder to imagine what he'd have been like at his worst!Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostComment
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"...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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As this the place where we can be pedantic, I note that the Guardian article says Mr Crystal is Hon. Professor of Linguistics at University of Wales, Bangor. As Bangor has now left the University of Wales, it just ain't possible.Comment
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Does it say that? 'Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at University of Wales, Bangor': as there's no present tense and this is not a current academic title (not like professor emeritus which he couldn't be because he was never a professor at Bangor), he could have been appointed honorary professor when Bangor was part of the University of Wales. As I undertand it, it isn't NOW part of the University of Wales though the latter will not be finally wound up until 2017. He was appointed honorary professor by Bangor (part of the University of Wales) in 1985. So, does that make him automatically an honorary professor of Bangor University?Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
However, and more to the point, Who's Who states more precisely that he is an honorary professorial fellow, Bangor University (formerly University College of North Wales, then University of Wales, Bangor), since 1985.
I always regarded him sidelong ever since I was sent a free copy of his Cambridge Biographical Dictionary (of which he was the editor). I mean, 'Gramsci, Antonio [gramskee]
To name but one.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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