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oliver sudden
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« Reply #15 on: 11:05:37, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: autoharp on 11:03:32, 20-07-2007
What about euphonia, Richard ? (from Baritone horns and euphoniums)
Great argument for the use of the term 'tenor tuba'.

Or 'tube tenore' if you must.
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« Reply #16 on: 11:10:59, 20-07-2007 »
Visiting conductor of Rock Gospel Choir: "Excuse me - can we have a little decorum please?"

Outspoken Tenor: "Wot d'yer mean man - we am de chorum!"
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« Reply #17 on: 13:09:30, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 10:33:57, 20-07-2007
Is there anyone out there who says timpano? I admit that in actual speech with actual people for me the word has become timp (when it's not Pauke or timbale). One timp, two timps.

I always thought it was "timpanum" (and I'm sure I've used that before, even if in error).

Fortunately plural cors anglais rarely cross my path.
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oliver sudden
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« Reply #18 on: 13:15:49, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: TimR-J on 13:09:30, 20-07-2007
I always thought it was "timpanum" (and I'm sure I've used that before, even if in error).
I'm using both of my tympana right now! Wink

Not in this sense though.
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« Reply #19 on: 13:49:22, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: Baziron on 11:10:59, 20-07-2007
Visiting conductor of Rock Gospel Choir: "Excuse me - can we have a little decorum please?"

Outspoken Tenor: "Wot d'yer mean man - we am de chorum!"

Nebber admit defeat widout admitting dehands also
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« Reply #20 on: 14:02:42, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: Kittybriton on 13:49:22, 20-07-2007
Quote from: Baziron on 11:10:59, 20-07-2007
Visiting conductor of Rock Gospel Choir: "Excuse me - can we have a little decorum please?"

Outspoken Tenor: "Wot d'yer mean man - we am de chorum!"

Nebber admit defeat widout admitting dehands also
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« Reply #21 on: 15:26:51, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 10:33:57, 20-07-2007
Gamba? (One [viola da] gamba, two [viole da] gamba?)
Nah - one viola's enough, whichever type it is (viola joke, not very good and certainly not up to the exalted standard of Levine Andrade)...

Quote from: oliver sudden on 10:33:57, 20-07-2007
Does anyone say cors anglais?
I prefer cors anglés, meself...

Quote from: oliver sudden on 10:33:57, 20-07-2007
On the other hand I don't see any reason why consensus is necessarily always desirable...
Would you therefore prefer "consenses" or "consensi"? If the former, then I'll try to con to my senses and shut up...

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Alistair
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« Reply #22 on: 15:30:41, 20-07-2007 »
The plural of Pace is Pace is Pace is Pace is...oh, never mind - my Gertrude Stein-throwing's even worse than my viola joke efforts, obviously...

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« Reply #23 on: 15:36:58, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 15:30:41, 20-07-2007
The plural of Pace

Speaking of pace, the plural of faux pas is of course faux pas.
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« Reply #24 on: 15:41:45, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 15:30:41, 20-07-2007
The plural of Pace is Pace is Pace is Pace is...oh, never mind

Grin Grin Grin

Any nice example of right recursion deserves a round of applause from this member anyway.
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« Reply #25 on: 15:53:13, 20-07-2007 »
Is the plural of penny whistle, tuppenny whistle?
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« Reply #26 on: 15:55:35, 20-07-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 15:30:41, 20-07-2007
my Gertrude Stein-throwing's even worse than my viola joke efforts, obviously...
I did once manage to get the sentence 'A Pole is a Pole is a Pole' into the pages of the Musical Times (in a review of Polish music which I also convinced the editor to run under the headline 'Eastenders'!) ... Smiley
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« Reply #27 on: 17:02:30, 20-07-2007 »
Anyone remember Frank Muir's story on 'My Word' which ended with a puzzled message left by Caesar's wife for her gardener: "0ur roses arose. Is a row Cicero's?"
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