Who? Me? I do -not- say quaver.  But then I be just a stoopid americun.
;-)

Santu De Silva:

>OK, then why is a Whole Note called a Semibreve?

IIRC (I mean it this time!) there used to be a 'breve', which was twice the
length of a whole note and looks something like a whole note with vertical
lines on either side of it.

I could be way off here.  That's what I recall from studying counterpoint.

Bob K., soliciting refutations