Talk:Sylvia Sayer

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The OED says empassioned is an older spelling of impassioned with no cites since the 17th century and no indication that it is anything but a spelling variant. Webster's Unabridged doesn't even mention the em- variation. Both say the word comes from the Italian impassionare. I won't change it, but you should consider it. Sincerely, what do you think the difference is? Ortolan88

Impassioned is just a modern fad, it'll be back to empassioned in the fullness of time. The word empassioned has for me a resonance which is sadly bereft in impassioned:


 * And now it is empassioned so deepe,
 * For fairest Vnaes sake, of whom I sing
 * [..] Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

The word impassioned lacks the centrality and poeticised internalisation which empassioned provides: alliterative as it is with emotion, empathy, etcetera. Which is central to what I am saying about Sylvia Sayer, a woman for whom I have boundless admiration, perhaps one of the first serious eco-warriors. user:sjc
 * Just an old-fashioned love song ... Ortolan88

Ho ho ho. user:sjc

Wrong husband
Link to her husband is to the wrong Guy Sayer. I don't know hoe to fix it86.6.41.186 (talk) 17:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed at last! —S MALL  JIM   20:23, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Full name
Despite searching, I've been unable to confirm that her full name was Sylvia Olive Pleadwell Sayer. So even though this has been in the article since before 2002, I've remmed the two middle names for now. —S MALL JIM   20:30, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Aha! Full name, full dob and full dod mentioned in the Indie's obit - all now added and referenced. Some confusion there about whether she was born in Plymouth or Portsmouth, so I'll leave that out. —S MALL  JIM   22:45, 3 September 2015 (UTC)