[Ansteorra] Congratulations to our new heirs, Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Sven and Princess Antigone

[Jean Paul de Sens]

I found it interesting that they were saying VIE-vat instead of the way we
normally say vee-VAT.

JP


Qui mieux fait, mieux vault.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:00 AM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the standpoint of the establishment that actually conducts the
> Coronation ceremony (the Church of England, the only non-CoE clergyman
> participating being the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of
> Scotland, who presented the Bible to Her Majesty), Her Majesty technically
> WAS crowned Queen of England in 1953. She is England's Queen, as much as
> she is Scotland's Queen, Northern Ireland's Queen, Wales' Queen, Canada's
> Queen, Australia's Queen...
>
> For what it's worth, I attribute the fourth VIVAT to overflowing
> enthusiasm. But which precedent is stronger--period precedent, or SCA usage
> precedent? (PLEASE say the former!)
>
> The stress should be on the first syllable, and not the last (VI-vat, not
> vi-VAT). In even medieval Latin, the primary stress is placed on the final
> syllable only in monosyllabic words.
>
> Detlef
>
>      non omne quod nitet aurum est
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Robin--it's vivat inflation. I blame the Spanish.
> >
> > -Tivar Moondragon
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Jay Rudin <rudin at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Three is all the King or Queen of England gets at Coronation.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Further pedantic note: there is no King or Queen of England at the
> > > moment.  There hasn't been since 1707, when the Acts of Union
> > > implementing the Treaty of Union merged the kingdom of England and the
> > > kingdom of Scotland into the kingdom of Great Britain.
> > >
> > > But there hasn't been a King or Queen of Great Britain since 1801, the
> > > further union with Ireland.  Since then, it's been the United Kingdom
> > > of Great Britain and [Northern] Ireland.
> > >
> > > Depending on how the upcoming Scots referendum on independence goes,
> > > this might change again.  The Englandrealm is actually pretty
> > > interested in being accurate in its terminology.
> > >
> > > Danielis (I'm not pompous, I'm pedantic.  Let me explain the
> > > difference) Lincolia
> > > --
> > > Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
> > >
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