ANSTHRLD - Local Heralds Training Material
Lorraine and/or Kief
deer_kief at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 30 16:31:31 PDT 1999
Heilsa all my Good and True Comrades of Arms...
T'was said:
>Actually the pronounciation "oh-yez" is more period, for use in both
>English and French language situations. Discovered this by mistake
>while researching period French spelling and pronunciation for
>documentation. After about 10 years of doing it wrong.
>
>Question for discussion, staying with the common pronunciation "oh-yay"
>is preserving local customs and ritual against outside attempts to
>modernize. very period.
Resistance to change is also a modern trait in many places...
>changing the pronunciation would make the call more period, but
>enforcing such a change would be very twentieth century.
Leave the cry as it is... As we are not medieval France but a separate
Kingdom altogether; the cry can be considered a "regional variant" of the
original language......
>What do you do??
Personally I "duck and cover" after crying "Oh-Yay!" a tad early on
tournament mornings.....
Waes Thu Hael kinfolk...
Kief - Gullinkambi Herald
"Better the Hammer than the nail..."
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