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[Lorraine and/or Kief]

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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