"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.

*’PurpleChrayne · Today 14:31

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

I am a forensic linguist and thought it's historical linguistics rather than forensic …’*

This, in a nutshell, is why I love MN.

I heard wider vagina camilla

@Papernotplastic

me too.

If you remember the 'squidgygate' tapes, seems remarkably apt!!!

I heard Vivat Regina.

Hmm... as an ex-chorister with a Latin GCSE, I suspect most people snicker the first time they sing/pronounce/hear the word regina, and always have done.

I was surprised to learn yesterday that the choir that sings the vivat at coronations aren't actually choristers, they are the (academic) King's scholars from Westminster school.

93% of British people heard "vagina" and the rest went to public school 🙃

I’m waiting for a hearing test appointment as I’ve noticed a problem in recent months. I almost mentioned it on the Coronation thread yesterday but didn’t want to lower the tone 🤣
I watched it live and I heard it as 5 lads vagina Camilla ! I rewound the tv 3 times and I knew I was mishearing but I sat here on my own with tears of laughter running down my face. Juvenile behaviour for a woman pushing 70 but this thread has set me off again 😂 😂

When I was a kid we went to Hampton Court and I saw a statue that had ELIZABETH REGINA on the plinth. My Dad explained it I and thought 'that word is so much like 'vagina', how come the Queen we have now isn't embarrassed?'

We heard it also, as have other people.

Sorry, not the I had vagina for dinner. But definitely Vagina Camilla.

That's the way I was taught to say it, except that 'regina' would be r, then eg as in leg, in as in 'pin' and the final syllable 'ah' to rhyme with 'jar' (non rhotic).

I didn’t hear it, but I’m familiar with the hymn ( sang it at my choir) so knew vivat Regina was coming. Oh and I didn’t go to public school. Did Latin at state school.

I'm a pleb and I hear it too OP! 😂

I did Latin at state school, and so has my daughter. She told me that when Queen Victoria was giving birth, the two doctors had to work under a raised sheet attached to her at the neck, and speak to each other in Latin. 'Ex vaginam!' she exclaimed, giggling.

Brilliant. Come the revolution this will be the shibboleth.

Play the tape and see what the toffs hear. Then first against the wall if they speak Latin.

I'm clearly a pleb because although I know what a shibboleth is I head WIPE THAT VAGINA CAMILLA. Very clearly.

The OP did make me watch 4 minutes of the coronation though. A feat no one else has managed.

I didn’t hear vagina and I went to state school. Don’t most people know that regina is Latin for queen? It’s why it says (said) ER on postboxes, stamps etc…

it's just the "Vivats".

Vivat Rex Carolus

Vivat Regina Camilla

Lool great idea! A nice, neat reversal of how Latin is usually used in British society.

Yeah, I've seen loads of The West Wing too.

Also a "pleb".

I still knew it was the vivats and "Vagina" was not mentioned.

🤷‍♀️

Ah well done. Boris would be very proud (but you still can't join their club, soz).

Am I being thick here, does anyone actually think people did think they were singing about vaginas?

Isn't Latin a "dead" language?

Nobody knows how any of it is pronounced.

Nobody is wrong.

It could be pronounced "Banana Hurricane Chessboard" for all we know. 🤔😂

What did these people think the R on stamps was?

A friend of mine, who did go to school, wondered aloud if they'd be replacing ER on the post vans with PC soon.