pwh@bucc2.UUCP (Pete Hartman) (11/04/89)
I hate to bust the Veronica bubble, but I think that's really an unlikely anagram. I don't know where the word comes from, but I've got an album by Renaissance that is titled _Novercia_ with a picture of a nun on the front. I also seem to have associations with the religious orders from my high school conversion to Catholicism, and seem to recall the novercia being associated with a convent in some fasion. I doubt that it could be a Bush family in-joke.
riley@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Daniel S. Riley) (11/04/89)
In article <626120494@bucc2.UUCP> pwh@bucc2.UUCP (Pete Hartman) writes: >I hate to bust the Veronica bubble, but I think that's really an >unlikely anagram. I don't know where the word comes from, but I've >got an album by Renaissance that is titled _Novercia_ with a picture >of a nun on the front. Ummm, the only Renaissance (the group, that is) album I have with a nun on the cover is _Novella_, not _Novercia_. It's sitting right in front of me, so I'm pretty sure about that. >I also seem to have associations with the >religious orders from my high school conversion to Catholicism, and >seem to recall the novercia being associated with a convent in some >fasion. There's "novena", "a recitation of prayers and devotions for nine consecutive days", from the Latin novenus, nine each. I don't remember hearing novercia in my days in Catholic schools. I was going to be mention "noverca", for stepmother, but Ed beat me to it. -Dan Riley (riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu, cornell!batcomputer!riley) -Wilson Lab, Cornell U.
rbt@genrad.UUCP (Robert B. Tufts) (11/06/89)
In article <626120494@bucc2.UUCP> pwh@bucc2.UUCP (Pete Hartman) writes: >I hate to bust the Veronica bubble, but I think that's really an >unlikely anagram. I don't know where the word comes from, but I've >got an album by Renaissance that is titled _Novercia_ with a picture I do not have the LP to look at, but wonder if you were recalling this from memory rather than looking at the LP. I have a tape of Renaissance's _Novella_ , and to the best of my knowledge they never had an LP named _Novercia_. (songs _Midas Man_ & _Can You Hear Me_ are on it). -Bob T.
relph@PRESTO.IG.COM (John M. Relph) (11/09/89)
I always thought "Novercia" just meant something like "New Commercialism". A pseudo-corporation Kate had to establish to handle the commercial aspects of her record-making activities. -- John