No, it isn’t Thursday lunchtime. It’s Thursday night, and nearly bedtime!
What Bible have you been reading? She’s Rebekah, not Rebecca. Unless you have been reading the Italian Bible. Maybe some other languages have that ‘other’ spelling, too, but I know that the Italian Bible has the wrong spelling.
My youngest child is Rebekah, and when I rang a friend to tell her that we had had a girl who we named Rebekah, she asked me how we had spelled her name. I told her that we had used the biblical spelling, thinking that would be the end of her questions. Not so.
Her:
Which Bible?
Me:
What do you mean, which Bible? (The lady who I was talking to is the wife of a Sydney Anglican minister. With your good Reformed Anglican knowledge and understanding, you will know what that means.)
Her:
Well, Andrew, the Italian Bible spells her name as R-e-b-e-c-c-a. The English Bible is the other way. So which one did you choose for your daughter?
Me:
Given that I don’t speak Italian, I chose the English spelling.
Her:
Okay Andrew, thanks for clarifying.
So now my question to you, James, is do you speak Italian?
And I have another bone to pick with you!
I’m coming to England in August, and I’ll be there for the whole month. And, unless you have made changes to your schedule, you don’t have any of your shows on the whole time I’m there! I can’t afford to keep coming back to England because you haven’t scheduled any shows for the whole month I’m in your country. Most inconsiderate of you, James. Most inconsiderate.
Ha. I nearly changed it to Rebekah, actually. Not sure why I didn't. Partly laziness? But then I reflected that Rebecca and Rebekah really are the same name, so I decided not to sweat it. Sorry I'm not on in August. I'm doing a show at the Keswick Convention in Week 3 right at the end of July which is no use at all. Badly done, Emma. Badly done.
And I didn’t even think about Keswick at all. And attending at least part of Keswick would have been wonderful.
I could have scheduled my trip slightly differently, but then I would not have seen my wife for close to three months - and she might not have appreciated that. Women get funny about that kind of thing. 😜
She’s in the U.S. visiting her family and I’m coming to England to see my sister to celebrate her big zero birthday in mid August. So, it could have worked out, but …
No, it isn’t Thursday lunchtime. It’s Thursday night, and nearly bedtime!
What Bible have you been reading? She’s Rebekah, not Rebecca. Unless you have been reading the Italian Bible. Maybe some other languages have that ‘other’ spelling, too, but I know that the Italian Bible has the wrong spelling.
My youngest child is Rebekah, and when I rang a friend to tell her that we had had a girl who we named Rebekah, she asked me how we had spelled her name. I told her that we had used the biblical spelling, thinking that would be the end of her questions. Not so.
Her:
Which Bible?
Me:
What do you mean, which Bible? (The lady who I was talking to is the wife of a Sydney Anglican minister. With your good Reformed Anglican knowledge and understanding, you will know what that means.)
Her:
Well, Andrew, the Italian Bible spells her name as R-e-b-e-c-c-a. The English Bible is the other way. So which one did you choose for your daughter?
Me:
Given that I don’t speak Italian, I chose the English spelling.
Her:
Okay Andrew, thanks for clarifying.
So now my question to you, James, is do you speak Italian?
And I have another bone to pick with you!
I’m coming to England in August, and I’ll be there for the whole month. And, unless you have made changes to your schedule, you don’t have any of your shows on the whole time I’m there! I can’t afford to keep coming back to England because you haven’t scheduled any shows for the whole month I’m in your country. Most inconsiderate of you, James. Most inconsiderate.
Ha. I nearly changed it to Rebekah, actually. Not sure why I didn't. Partly laziness? But then I reflected that Rebecca and Rebekah really are the same name, so I decided not to sweat it. Sorry I'm not on in August. I'm doing a show at the Keswick Convention in Week 3 right at the end of July which is no use at all. Badly done, Emma. Badly done.
Who’s Emma?
And I didn’t even think about Keswick at all. And attending at least part of Keswick would have been wonderful.
I could have scheduled my trip slightly differently, but then I would not have seen my wife for close to three months - and she might not have appreciated that. Women get funny about that kind of thing. 😜
She’s in the U.S. visiting her family and I’m coming to England to see my sister to celebrate her big zero birthday in mid August. So, it could have worked out, but …
You’ll have to come to Australia.
“Badly done, Emma” is from Jane Austen. I have three sisters, a wife and two daughters. I have some exposure to Austen.