"I've had vagina for dinner..." coronation

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OK wtf, just watching coronation clips and at 03.10 it sound like the choir is singing "I've had vagina for dinner..."

Tell me I'm not the only one who hears it this way.

I hear "Wipe that vagina Camilla"

Omg 😆

What are they actually saying?

Vivat Regina I imagine.

😂

My elderly DM (lives with us) had the coronation on yesterday (at about 500dB) and as i went past her living room door i heard ''VAGINA! VAGINA! VAGINA!'' ect. and thought wt actual fuck is that bit?!

I watched that live and never heard it quite like that, thanks @Whatt and @IHateLegDay 🤣

I didn’t hear that at all! They’re saying vivat regina Camilla (long live queen Camilla).

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Even though I know what they’re singing, it really does sound like that, great spot!

Hahaha! you're right!

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It’s I like vagina Camilla I think

Glad I wasn't the only one.
DH was in the other room but even he shouted 'What on earth are they singing'?
I'd love to know how they got little choir boys to sing that without laughing, as I'm 70 and giggled like a hyena. 😆

LOL

It's:

Vivat regina Camilla. Vivat rex Carolus.
Long live Queen Camilla. Long live King Charles.

It seems someone had the foresight to turn off the YouTube autogenerated subtitles/closed captions 😂

It's easy if you don't have much exposure to Latin (and choral Latin in particular) to not hear it correctly - but I actually thought their enunciation was absolutely spot on with all the consonants at precisely the same time, which can be the hardest part of singing as a choir. The T sounds were exceptionally clear, for example.

Choral singing can have some daft in jokes - Te Deum can get referred to as Tedium, if the director has been getting stressed with the Altos because they're whispering without moving their lips in case somebody sees them singing and they get evils from the 1st Sopranos 'Here comes the ''Louder Mouse'' part', certain musical phrases get described as 'Death Star bit coming up' - I'm willing to bet that they absolutely hammered that in rehearsals precisely so there was no mumbling that could possibly sound like wipe that vagina, Camilla.

Nope I hear Vivat Regina Camilla. Which is precisely what they are singing.

I heard it as “fly back”, so glad to know what they’re actually singing!

This.

However, Regina pronounced in English is a strange sounding word. I have a European friend called Regina. It sounds fine in her language but not so pretty in English.

Vivat regina Camilla. Vivat rex Carolus.
Long live Queen Camilla. Long live King Charles

Yes. As they sang Vivat Regina Elizabetha at the coronation of the late Queen. But then, of course, no one started speculating that they were talking about vaginas.

Well. You know. The tampax thing..

And here was me thinking they’d have roast peacock or swan tongues in aspic, or whatever.

Thank you! It’s been the coronation anthem for just over 100 years. The “vivats” are sung whenever the monarch is present. Choirs were literally singing “Vivat Regina” for 70 years of Elizabeth II reign. Including at Will and Kates wedding! But apparently it’s new and everyone has vaginas on the brain.

I'm not a forensic linguist, but surely it should be pronounced veevat regheena and not vighvat rejyna.

Did it take a while to think that up Op?

I am a forensic linguist and though it's historical linguistics rather than forensic, nobody really knows. It's thought that most Latin words had a similar pronunciation to the Italian of today, so /vi:væt/ etc, but the truth is, we don't know.

I am surprised that people think they heard "vagina" though when the word "Regina" has been such a well-known and commonplace word connected to the RF for so long.

What did these people think the R on stamps was?

@PurBal I think it's more they have inventing a totes hilaires story to make fellow MNers spit out their drinks and say "OMFG OP, I'm crying, funniest thing I've ever heard"

I am a forensic linguist and though it's historical linguistics rather than forensic, nobody really knows. It's thought that most Latin words had a similar pronunciation to the Italian of today, so /vi:væt/ etc, but the truth is, we don't know.

I'm no linguist at all, but I do know that historically, the "i" in many names derived from Latin has been pronounced as in the pronoun "I" in the UK.

As in my MN nickname: the states of North and South Carolina, both named a feminine derivative of Carolus for King Charles I.