Isle and island have completely different etymologies, and the s was added to island after the fact to make it align better with isle.

The problem for me at least is that competence *should* be the metric and so that’s where I would personally want vote. I don’t *want* to vote on charisma in a primary, but understand that that’s how things often go in the general.

One issue IMO is that politically-minded people often think too much about who would have made a good president in a governing sense (which all 4 would have), when voters evidently just don’t care.

GOP has that issue too in fairness; Romney/McCain/Dole all tried to be the “steady hand” guy.

If the Sox don’t win it I’d root for the Mariners or Guardians, Reds at well because of Tito (but they’re not getting past LA). TBH, anyone but the Yankees or Dodgers would be bearable.

That’d be “Gmix” in the terminology, G scale with a flat 7 (Fnat). But yeah, it can get harmonically ambiguous a lot of times. It’s very common issue where a player shouts out a key for the next tune, but they’re wrong/it’s in a slightly different one. Had that happen at a gig last night actually!

Source for all this: I live in Ireland and play this music a few times a week. @lollardfish.bsky.social if you’re ever in Cork DM me, plenty of great sessions around here!

The one-row diatonic melodeon/accordion was at one time very popular due to it being cheap and fairly easy to play, and most of the music could be played on it. Nowadays though the vast majority of accordion playing is on a chromatic 2-row box, and one-row playing is a kind of specialized thing.

…which were the most popular instruments in the 19th century as the music was forming. The aforementioned tin whistles and keyless flutes can get a decent C natural, which makes those keys very easy for them.

So TLDR; it’s not in the SAME key but in various keys that are very closely related.

…D or G major and associated modes (popular ones include Dmix, Ador, Edor, and Amix). The range is *mostly* from D to the B an octave and a 6th above it. There are a variety of reasons for this but it’s mostly because it works easily on flute and fiddle (which doesn’t have to leave 1st position), …

So, Irish trad uses various instruments, most of which are fully chromatic. The notable exception is the tin whistle, which is diatonic and standardly pitched in D. You also get keyless flutes similar to Baroque flutes that are functionally diatonic.

HOWEVER, most Irish trad is in the key of…

I play in pubs here in Ireland and this happens pretty much every gig. Dealing with it is an art form unto itself, let me tell you.

Congrats! Hope they gave you a good no-show endorsement deal on the side.

There is actually a 13th tone that THEY don’t want you to know about.

The answer is clearly crispy pata, most unfortunate souls just haven’t had it before. I will also accept lumpia.

Don’t know what it’s like elsewhere but they’re coming back strong in Mass. Used to see them flying over Quinsig in Worcester all the time. Beautiful birds!

You’re the Brady Feigl(s) of journalism!

I wonder what the breakdown would be undergrad vs grad. I’d imagine that there’s more diversity in undergrad but that grads get funneled into the big programs. At least that’s the case for the people I know.

Bing’s younger brother! He had his own band and radio show and IIRC a TV show at one stage.