worth a grin...

[John Woodsworth]

Ottawa (Canada), Monday 14 October 2002 21h25 EDT

A multi-faith Thanksgiving service I attended yesterday on Parliament Hill here in our nation's capital (in
conjunction with today's Thanksgiving holiday in Canada) -- where Her Majesty the Queen & Prince
Philip were guests of honour -- included a performance by a local Ukrainian Orthodox choir of a
Ukrainian hymn.  The name of this hymn was listed in the official programme (in Latin letters) as OTYE
HAW.  Even with my trained Slavic eyes I did not at first recognise someone's ingenious (or unwitting)
attempt to render Cyrillic characters into the Latin alphabet by appearance instead of sound.
Mercifully, no non-Slav was called upon to pronounce the title publicly and the Lord's Prayer was
rendered beautifully in Ukrainian by a choir of native speakers.

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