[Dixielandjazz] Audientor or audentior

[Robert Smith]

Dear Gerard,

We English love to invent words to fill in all the gaps in the English 
language. These, of course, never get accepted because we English love to 
debate every issue. As examples the word "you" is both singular and plural, 
we have no word for "on the contrary". This means we have no word for "floor 
manager" (the person who looks after the audience side of things). A good 
word for this manager would be "audientor", who would be a kind of shop 
steward (again no single word) for audiences. So I think the original issue 
was a misprint, and like the re-issue, should have been "Audientor".
A second meaning of audience is a one-to-one (again no single word) meeting 
between a person and a person in authority (e.g. an audience with the Pope), 
so a second meaning of "audientor" is the person in authority. However "Pope 
March" doesn't really sound too good, and "King March" easily gets confused 
with "King Size" and "Trombone King".
It's a tragic fact of life that we English will never get round to accepting 
"audientor" as a word that will be included in the revised "Oxford English 
Dictionary" (due for completion in 2037).

Cheers

Bob Smith


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