And you think we're crazy

[Pigwidgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., tanwo at h... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Benjamin" <jaffa276 at y...> wrote:
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> > > 
> > > Salisbury is not pronounced as it is spelt :))
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> > 
> > Indeed not, it's pronounced Sarum.
> > 
> > -Ben
> 
> 
> Okay, you gotta explain it to the Colonials now!
> 
> Wotan

I would guess he is talking about this, which is from my usual source.

SARUM: The ecclesiastical name of Salisbury, used attrib. in Sarum 
Use, the order of divine service used in the diocese of Salisbury 
from the 11th century to the Reformation; so Sarum missal, office, 
rubric. Also absol. 
 
1570 FOXE A. & M. 237/1 Thus..Osmundus bishop of Salisbury, deuised 
that ordinary, which is called the vse of Sarum. Ibid. Table, Sarum 
vse when it was deuised. 
1832 W. PALMER Orig. Liturg. I. 186 Their rubrics are sometimes less 
definite than those of the Sarum `Use'. Ibid. 357 note, This epistle, 
according to the Sarum rubric, was taken from the `commune unius 
Apostoli'. 
1882 G. H. FORBES Missale Drummond. 7 margin, In the Sarum Office 
this is the Alleluia for Mondays. Ibid. 8 margin, This Communio does 
not occur in the Sarum. 
1929 S. LESLIE Anglo-Catholic x. 117 His ritual was simple: two 
lights, Sarum Use and Sarum colours with simple vestments of linen. 
1954 O. CHADWICK Founding of Cuddesdon v. 133 This was just the time 
when the old-fashioned cassock was giving way to the Sarum cassock, 
which was intruding from about 
1887 onwards and conquering by 
1897. 1957 Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 1209/1 In the years preceding the 
Reformation the output of Sarum books was enormous. The much 
increased knowledge which has followed their discovery..has led to 
the revival of Sarum customs and ornaments in many English cathedral 
and parish churches. 
1966 J. BETJEMAN High & Low 55 And there we'll sing the Sarum rite 
Tae English Hymnal airs. 
1972 C. STEPHENSON Merrily on High iv. 64 SS. Philip & James, very 
Sarum, and St. Margaret's close by very western, were the centre of 
great turmoil at one stage when the vicar of Phil & Jim was making it 
western and the vicar of St. Margaret's was busy taking off the six 
candles from the altar and substituting two while introducing Sarum 
practices. 
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 908/3 The Sarum chants resemble 
Gregorian ones in the use of free rhythm, modes.., psalm tones.., 
musical form, and the addition of tropes.



Possibly I should have known that, but I am not a local like Jaffa.


Simon