aplogies jean, I didn't read that into this thread. I've never been very good at divining nuances.
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Alain M. I think your point was a good one though! Scholars make pronouncements about 'how ecclesiastical Latin was pronounced in the 14 cent England'. My response is:
(a) we shall never know
(b) was there only one way (your point) ?
(c) who cares anyway so long as choirmembers all agree on a house style
(d) we only know for certain as far back as living aural memory tells us about church, classical (as taught at schools in recent history) and legal Latin. (On that point I thought Jean's poems very pertinent...not like my deviant ramblings.)Comment
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What you call 'legal Latin' may be now confined to legal phrases, but (as my verses indicate) it had a much wider currency once.
And we are not confined to 'living aural memory', as those same verses also tell us.
But this is not the thread I should have revived - there was far more information on one of the others (so I may revive that one, too.)Comment
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