I recall FWIW a letter to The Times many years ago, from a baritone, long-retired, who had once actually rehearsed Stanford's setting with the poet listening, for a Royal Command concert for King George V, in which he commended his advice as to pronunciation to singers who would render "studding sails" as spelt, as he had naturally done at first attempt. Newbolt interrupted, "No no, for God's sake! and His Majesty a seafaring man too! Stuns'ls, man, Stuns'ls!"

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