[r-t] Cheeky Little Surprise Minor

[Alan Reading]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 14:59, Graham John <graham at changeringing.co.uk>
wrote:

> Alan wrote:
> > Unless it is buried in the definition of Touch (which it doesn't appear
> to be) it looks
> > as though the Framework doesn't include anything about Truth in the
> definition of
> > a peal? Whilst I understand the aim of the framework is to be
> descriptive and
> > inclusive I'm a little surprised at that omission as I'd have thought
> most ringers
> > would regard Truth as being a fundamental property of a peal just as
> much as
> > being over 5000 changes.
>
> Truth is articulated as a norm for a published performance. If you
> included truth in the definition of a peal, you could not say that you
> rang a false peal, for example.
>

Yes that makes sense. I'm sure ringers always used to talk about ringing a
"false peal" as a shorthand for "ringing a false peal length performance"
but I appreciate that this means the former is now also technically
correct.


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