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#12828 12/16/00 11:11 AM
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Our friend Faldage mentions Louisville Lou.

Any kin to our friend Jackie?


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In reply to:

While shepherds washed their socks by night
All seated round the tub,
A bar of Sunlight Soap came down
And they began to scrub.


Yes, I vaguely remember Sunlight Soap, but haven't seen it for a long time. The unofficial version of the carol, we had was:

While shepherds washed their socks by night
all seated round the tub
an angel of the Lord came down
and soapsuds flew around.

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BYB commented: So far, no takers on Adeste Fideles. Those are, of course, the Latin words to "O Come All Ye Faithful", which everyone I know assumes to be a medieval hymn, since it was originally written in Latin.
I think most of us old Latin hammerers understood that.

Nowadays when a group of people gather -- be it at The Pops for Christmas or anywhere else -- you can generally tell the old-time RCs from the post-John XXIII RCs and Protestants by whether the singer uses the Latin or the English lyric. Or so I've found. Sine I am generally bad at Latin I use Adeste to bulk up my credentials and sing it in Latin!
Do they even teach the Latin lyrics outside of formal choral settings?
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WOW comments: . Sine I am generally bad at Latin I use Adeste to bulk up my credentials and sing it in Latin!

Well, although you didn't use it in a place I would expect either syntactically or semantically, you have left me with the (Latin) impression that you are without something, super-Mom. Was that to reinforce your lack of Latin?



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I don't believe I didn't catch that! It was, of course, supposed to be since not sine! When I read it today, I cringed because I knew I'd get caught. Leave it to Capital Kiwi ... he's sine qua non for Latin!
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Sunlight soap was pretty big in India (at least it used to be). So successful was it that they extended the brand to washing powder as well. Lever Brothers?


#12834 12/18/00 11:39 AM
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Lever Brothers?

Right on!



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My close friend Marcia Cohen regaled us with:
Deck the halls with motzah balls,
Santa Claus is Uncle Sol....
Wish I could remember the rest...it was 1949!
Merry Merry!
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According to Dom John Stephan in "Adeste fidelis: a study of its origin and development" (1947) this hymn was likely written by John Francis Wade. Wade was a Roman Catholic layman who copied plainchant for a living. The best guess for the date of its composition is 1740-3.


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WOW said I don't believe I didn't catch that!

WOW, I wasn't really picking on you. Since you were claiming (in the same sentence) that you knew little Latin, your typo just seemed too good to pass up. I doubt very much if I'm the sine qua non on anything. I'm just a traveller really. Or as one of my colleagues formerly from China calls me, a "capitalist roader".



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