Re: [PATCH] ledger lines

[David Raleigh Arnold]

Juergen Reuter wrote:

> > OTOH, one of the many things that I like in the book is that he knows
> > how to spell leger line.  Leger, not ledger.
>
> Just kidding:
>
> Webster's Third New International Dictionary:
>
>     ledger line
>       also leger line: a short line added above or below the staff
>       to extent its range in musical notation
>
>     leger
>       var of ledger
>
> Langenscheidt's big school dictionary German/English (which focuses on
> British English) only knows the words "ledger", but no "leger".
>
> Greetings,
> Juergen
Point is that leger is the traditional spelling in music just as we use

bass instead of base.  Kurt Stone knows this, but not much else. 
Langenscheidt's scholars didn't know it and Webster's didn't care.  Do 
you want to spell bass as base the way they used to in the 1600's?

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