Klarinet Archive - Posting 000535.txt from 2003/08

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lacunae
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:28:38 -0400

"...up with which I will not put."

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html and 1000 more sites

Allegedly Churchill complained about an overzealous
civil servant correcting his grammar, when ending sentences
with a preposition. Now it is permitted to omit all vowels.

For those who do not know who Arthur Hutchings was
and, quite rightly, cannot be bothered to do the legwork,
he was Professor of Music at Durham and Exeter Universities
and the author of several books, where he practised what he
preached. He began to contributed to the 'Musical Times' at the age of 19.
He played the violin and piano, and composed a little. As a generally good
all-round exemplar, he was probably overtaken only by Charles Cudworth,
as all students at Cambridge (1943-1973), with an interest in music,
will attest.

M

Dan wrote on Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Lacunae

> I want you to know that this is nonsense, up with which I will not put.
>
> Dan
>
>
> Clark Fobes wrote:
>
> > I am influenced by Arthur Hutchings's dislike of
> > genteelisms, elegencies, archaisms and literalisms.
> > Inverted snobbery? So we should have hippopotomuses,
> > hiatuses, tuttis, rondos, sonatas, lacunas, emporiums,
> > honorariums, concertos, but only exceptionally concerti grossi! :-O
> > So it is generally a lapsus linguae.
> > M for myrmidon.
> >
> > CLARK FOBES Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:44 PM
> > Subject: [kl] Lacunae
> >
> >>Where else can one use such a delicious word? Lacunae is plural for
lacuna
> >>which means "an empty space or gap". Benade uses this word in several of
> >>his writings on woodwind bores. I did, however,avoid another favorite
two
> >>word phrase , "bore perturbation" (any change in the diameter of the
> >
> > bore).
> >
> >>Ah, the world of clarinet acoustics is rife with arcane poetry.
> >>
> >>
> >>CLARK FOBES
> >>reedman@-----.com
> >>Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.

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