wiki-illiam q12!

[dubdobdee]

12. Which words are particularly associated with these small towns and villages:
i: Repton
ii: Thaxted
iii: Wolvercote
iv: Rockingham
v: Down Ampney
vi: Cwm Rhondda
vii: Abbots Leigh
viii: St Clement
ix: Monkland
x: Cranham

the rules:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes where possible!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions
d: other fora in = (unpoliceably) Out of Bounds till next set is up

er i am not sure here at all, rockingham is a card game and a type of whig, cwm rhonnda i associate with male voice choirs!

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

or if it is in fact melodies we're after --> "Oranges and Lemons"?

ignore, me hearties

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

nah, scrub that - "St Clement" is also a hymn tune, I just checked.

So, is that it? Or do we now have to identify the first line of each hymn to satisfy the "Which words..." part of the Qn?

Re: ignore, me hearties

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i think it's same diff territory actually -- in the 19th century when most of the hymntunes started to gather routine useage, the tunes were known for the sheet music songs they originally graced; today they're known for the hymns they've stuck to, the non-hymn songs having vanished from human ken like the pop of yesteryear (oh wait)

so yes i imagine the words are the first lines: hymnbooks index hymns by first lines generally