[Magdalen] Here We Go Again.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/6/2015 12:32:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:

3  debtors, four 
trespassers -- each trying to be louder than the  others.>>>
 
 
It is said that Presbyterians in Pittsburgh use "debtors" and the
Episcopalians use "trespassers" because the Presbyterians 
were the bankers, and the Episcopalians were the land owners, and
"debtors'" and "trespassers" was appropriate.
 
And in the USA it is to swim upstream to have "trespass" = TRES-pis
and "trespassers" = TRES-pis-ers pronounced correctly.
 
In the USA there is that need to "head them off at the PASS,"
so they become tres-PASS and tres-PASS-ers.  This changes the
vowel pronunciation as well as the word stress.
 
 
 
 
David Strang - Swimming upstream for the second time today.