Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!daemon From: pwh@bucc2.UUCP (Pete Hartman) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Novercia Message-ID: <626120494@bucc2.UUCP> Date: 4 Nov 89 05:46:17 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: MIT Lines: 9 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu I hate to bust the Veronica bubble, but I think that's really an unlikely anagram. I don't know where the word comes from, but I've got an album by Renaissance that is titled _Novercia_ with a picture of a nun on the front. I also seem to have associations with the religious orders from my high school conversion to Catholicism, and seem to recall the novercia being associated with a convent in some fasion. I doubt that it could be a Bush family in-joke.