[Magdalen] Diocese of Virginia 2015 Council Meeting

[Scott Knitter]

Back in RCdom, everyone seemed to do fine with DYE-uh-seez (diocese)
and DYE-uh-seez-iz (dioceses). Only on arrival in my first Episcopal
parish did I find out there were debates about it. But it turns out
everyone is right, according to Merriam-Webster's. I'm glad about
that! We can have our preferences and not be right or wrong.

So why do so many people say ree-seez for Reese's? (Ducking and
running, while thinking it might have to do with uncertainty about
treating plurals with -ces in general. Processes as "process-eez"
mystifies me, too. I think folks try to do the same for processes as
they do for appendices. And the might not be wrong...we may all be OK.
:)

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Roger Stokes
<roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 22/01/2015 21:37, Scott Knitter wrote:
>>
>> It'll be a historic, festive day when the rest of the church can welcome
>> Virginia back into the warm fellowship of dioceses that have conventions
>> instead of councils. ;)
>
>
> It would make the writing amd interpretation of national Canons easier if
> everybody used the same nomenclature ;-)  For me a council is a smaller body
> than a convention.
>
> Roger



-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA