dv said:

Bogsnorkler said:

dv said:

Went to another wedding. Not someone close.
Anglican service. The rector did that High Church thing where some syllables are weirdly long and high, idk what it is called.

Melismata

Yeah okay but this was when speaking not singing

Oh, i know what you mean.

Anglican Hymn Cadence.

Was a running joke on the old radio comedy, ‘The Navy Lark’. The character ‘the Padre’ (played by Michael Bates) would often end his conversational sentences in that manner.