[Magdalen] Music question

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 18:27:40 UTC 2016


Wasn't it Sgt Ritzik on the Phil Silvers show who went "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" It
became his trademark, uh, sound?

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 Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:24 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> You say oo and I say ooh -- I'd think proo would rhyme with look or book.
> While ooh rhymes with "Two".
>
> I got that it is an ooh sound (which is not an "O" sound). I was just
> teasing about the triple U -- as in is that just Ooh, or is it Ooh, ooh,
> ooh.
>
> Prooh  as in Winnie the Prooh.
>
> or, one might just say, the L and X are silent. That really covers the
> matter, I think.  I had no idea til this thread appeared, but I never had
> any need to pronounce, so no problem.  Sort of like scion ...
>
> [sorry if this is a tad late. I didn't know I had not sent it]
>
> 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 Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
>
>> Vous ne savez pas la langue de la Nouvelle France.  C'est "proo," comme
>> le son de la vache (en anglaise): "moo."
>>
>> Molly
>> maudit anglo
>>
>> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
>> other way. -- Mark Twain
>>
>> > On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:58 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
>> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > When you say Pruuu, do you mean "Prooh", or is it "Prooh, ooh!, ooh!" ?
>> >
>> > 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, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> In a message dated 11/16/2016 5:32:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> >> revegger at gmail.com writes:
>> >>
>> >> Yes,  Richard.  to me his name looks like it should be pronounced
>> >> "Prowlex"
>> >>
>> >> It's Pruuu.  At least that's the way he wants it.
>> >>
>> >> Some of his "Community Mass" is in TEC '82 Hymnal.  The local
>> >> Procathedral at one point printed up pew cards with the Mass Ordinary
>> >> for easy use, but the old low-church hardliners objected because it
>> >> used the word, "Mass."  They had to be withdrawn, even though  the
>> >> hymnal version is used without problem.
>> >>
>> >> Proulx was on the '82 Hymnal Committee, even though he is a
>> >> Roman Catholic, and long time O/C of Chicago's RC Holy Name
>> >> Cathedral.
>> >>
>> >> He gained a sort of fame by appealing to the national church music
>> >> community (successfully) to help him out with coronary bypass surgery
>> >> expenses.  Apparently the Archdiocese of Chicago had a cheapo
>> >> medical policy that didn't cover the expense.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> David S.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
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>


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