Twenty minutes before the evening Mass:
Director: OK, you've got the psalm refrain there...
[The text is: "Lord, you have the words of everlasting life."]
Director: I want you to make a separation before "of". I don't want to hear any "word-zuv", but "words. of." And, uh, I think let's do the same for "ever-" too, OK?
Choir member: Couldn't we slur our words in honor of St. Patrick's Day?