pah-VAHN

I'm listening to this learned pre-concer talk by John Bryan, Emeritus Professor of Music at the U of Huddersfield, violist and musicologist, on "Passionate Pavans and Aeirs both Grave and Light: Exploring the dance music of Dowland and Holborne".

He keeps saying "PAAVin".

Does he know something I don't?

This is reminding me of my freshman calculus prof, who in lecturing on equations in radial coordinates keep referring to "theter", as in "integral of sine theter d x". You could tell who among the students were ET residents, by the quiet unison hiss, "THETA".