The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115019   Message #2459034
Posted By: Ruth Archer
07-Oct-08 - 05:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ralph/Raife
Subject: RE: BS: Ralph/Raife
At the Philharmonia Orchestra's RVW Study Day at the British Library earlier this year, a number of intelligent and erudite questions were raised by the audience. Funnily enough, the last question of the day was from a chap who said to the (impressive) assembled panel, "Can you just clear up the one thing that's been bothering me all day: You lot keep saying Rafe. Is it Ralph or Rafe?" To which Michael Kennedy - surely the RVW expert if there ever was one, replied succinctly, "It is Rafe." At which point the chasp in the audience protested, gesturing towards the display area in the foyer, "But it says Ralph everywhere out there!"


Clearly not just confusing for the non-British...