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

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

How many people in the TEC tradition know the hymn, "It is well with my
soul" ?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>   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.
>