[Magdalen] TECnical question

Roger Stokes roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Tue May 5 16:32:24 UTC 2015


On 05/05/2015 17:12, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>> Ferdinand
>> I know I probably sound terribly pedantic, but I don’t like that any
>> better. It makes the US church sound like a corporation or a government
>> agency. I wonder why members of the US Episcopal Church find it so hard
>> just to say the name of the church?
>
> We (in the US) routinely call the 'mother church' The C of E.... and I 
> thought I've heard that over on your side of the pond as well.

I certainly say that but Ferdinand has flitted around these islands from 
the Eastern reaches of "God's own County" (Yorkshire) after the butchers 
of Whitehall took a knife to it, then to drinking Liffey water and now 
he is in another country again, one where a lot of people want 
independence.

Roger


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