Comments on: The Whole Year Through: Relief Society, 1976-77

By: Maurine

Maurine — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:42:27 +0000

I have fond memories of work meetings and learning new skills or tasting new recipes. It was fun to have a luncheon as part of the work meeting. Now we are not supposed to use the kitchen to do any cooking. What a waste!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:27:27 +0000

I loved how the Samoans would sing ‘threaten’ (rhymes with sweeten) in “We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet”.

By: Left Field

Left Field — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:18:02 +0000

I once attended church in Belfast, and was surprised to hear them singing of the azure [rhymes with measure] sky.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:19:00 +0000

Actually, the church has revived “Mutual” for the activity night for youth, despite the word’s disappearance from the organizations’ names. I can’t remember when that revival happened. But it definitely wasn’t spring 1820.

As to pronunciation, don’t even ask the resident Brits to get started on “Don Quixote”.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:06:23 +0000

Oh, that’s even stranger to my ears! Thanks.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:02:00 +0000

Van Gogh: ‘Gogh’ rhymes with ‘Cough’, so is pronounced ‘Goff’.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:51:01 +0000

Mark, my mother still called it “work meeting,” but perhaps that was like “Mutual” — how long has it been since “Mutual” was part of the young people’s auxiliary title, and yet how often do we still say THAT? And I bet we’ll call in Enrichment for another generation, too.

Anne and Alison, I’m relieved that it’s just what seems to be a minor difference in stress. I was afraid it was as different as the American pronunciation of Van Gogh as “Van Go” versus the French pronunciation of “Van Gok.” (How do you say that one, as long as I’ve brought him up?)

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20:45 +0000

In Scotland: “Aris-TOTTLE”

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:03:03 +0000

Was it really called “Work Meeting” at that late date? I thought it had become Homemaking Meeting several years earlier.

But, speaking of work meeting, I remember well those eight or nine days a year that my mother went had work meeting at Relief Society, with a luncheon afterwards, because those are the days that we ate lunch at school. Every other day we walked home for lunch–three long blocks down Sixth East in Provo, and those were long blocks back then. Not quite sure how they’ve shrunk in these last 50 years.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:45:39 +0000

oh, no, nothing like ‘American ignorance’, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same. It just sounded odd to hear this very South London lady give the lesson in south London-ese, then faithfully follow the guide as printed and launch into ‘Aris-TAHT-l’

I’d probably go for ‘ARIS-tottle’;however, a Scot would pronounce it differently again.