[Magdalen] Terminology query (was Re: speaking of downsizing...)

[Kristin Rollins]

It is amazing, though, how some of those terms can seem like everybody
knows them until you are somewhere else. And then you don't know which
words are the ones that will make people look at you like "WHAT did you
just say?"

I think I had the same experience with hymn tunes. There were the tunes
that EVERYBODY knew back home, and in most churches I visited other
places near there. But it took a long time to figure out which ones
would get a "we've NEVER sung that tune before" reaction from choir and
congregation down here.

Kristin

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  Kristin Rollins
  kristin at verumsolum.com
  Portsmouth, VA

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 08:49 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Maybe we can go on to various words for couch/davenport/sofa/Chesterfield
> > ???? <grin>
> 
> Our Canadian organist/choirmaster in East Cupcake would use terms like
> Chesterfield as though everyone everywhere used that term. I remember
> a choir party at his house when his wife told one of the tenors she
> had picked up a dropped glove of his and put in on the Chesterfield.
> He blinked and said, "Quick: name three synonyms for Chesterfield!"
> hoping one of them would enlighten him as to where his glove was.