Choir Vowels

My choir/singing friends will find this amusing:

And the rest of you can just remember that children make some really strange connections….

The other day F asked me why I sang “Hosahnnah”  instead of “Hosanna” I demonstrated the difference and told him that when we sing we use “choir vowels”. He got that.

Last night S was singing to him at bed time and sang “Hosanna”.

F: No, Papa you have to use choir vowels. You sing “Hosahnnah”.

S: Oh Ok, (he went on to sing a hymn in which “been” is pronounced with the long e in order to complete the