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Re: Keeping Up With the Joneses
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:12:57 -0400
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At 01:52 PM 9/29/2000 -0700, Stan Sieler wrote:

>I checked my local expert, Steve Cooper.  He said "a capella" means
>"in the chapel", although many people do think it means
>"without accompaniment" (I thought so too).

Steve is literally right, of course, but since chapel choirs used to sing
unaccompanied, the phrase is now synomous with "unaccompanied".

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