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How to pronounce canonical hour in English?

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Type Words
Type of time of day, hour
Has types nones, prime, tierce, matins, sext, terce, complin, compline, evensong, vespers, morning prayer

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The first six of its 15 sections are texts from the canonical hour of Vespers.
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The 1970 reform of the Divine Office renamed this canonical hour the Office of Readings.
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Historically, nocturne is a very old term applied to night Offices and, since the Middle Ages, to divisions in the canonical hour of Matins.
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The invitatory psalm is retained only if the Office of Readings is celebrated as the first canonical hour of the day, otherwise it is attached to Lauds.
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