Do You Say Wind Or Wind?

[George94]

Who really cares how people pronounce it?

 

I tend to pronounce "block and tackle" the Navy way (taykle), but it's just a harmless affectation, as is using "winned" for turning a boat when in other circumstances you would pronounce the same word in the conventional way.

[magnetman]

And the word davit is pronounced like the name david

 

What 'other circumstances'

 

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[Rob-M]

How old are you?

(sorry don.t answer if its too personal just genuine interest in the subject)

Mid 40's. That's age, not the period when I was a kid. Edited November 10, 2014 by Rob-M

[magnetman]

You are presumably saying (or 'sighing') that winned is another way of pronouncing 'weyend' rather than the word wind being a different word to the word wind in the sense of meaning

Ok ta Rob M so was it leisure boaters or commercial who said 'lock key' ?

[Rob-M]

Ok ta Rob M so was it leisure boaters or commercial who said 'lock key' ?

It was leisure boaters.

[furnessvale]

It was leisure boaters.

One of the Waterworld programmes interviewed an old working boat couple. She was particularly scathing at the newcomers use of "lock key" to describe a windlass.

 

George ex nb Alton retired

[magnetman]

so she just called it a windlass I guess.

Edited November 11, 2014 by magnetman

[Jerra]

so she just called it a windlass I guess.

Strictly speaking a windlass shouldn't be correct as a windlass is according to the dictionary a winch. So shouldn't it be a windlass handle?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Tongue in cheek emoticon)

[magnetman]

Just what I was thinking

Maybe they were just 'andles.

[mark99]

Just what I was thinking

Maybe they were just 'andles.

Four candles?

[mark99]

I blame more banal narrowboat blogs/diary. They inevitably start the day with the awful phrase " we pulled the pins".....

Edited November 16, 2014 by mark99

[mattlad]

Four candles?

'Andles for forks!

[Ray T]

I still go to Birnigum

 

When you've been to Birningum you can travel to Bugby, Maffers, Ricky...............

Edited November 17, 2014 by Ray T

[matty40s]

I blame more banal narrowboat blogs/diary. They inevitably start the day with the awful phrase " we pulled the pins".....

Accupuncture is quite common in those long distance CC'ers, it is needed to offset the strains caused by lock keys, heavy lock doors and pulling the lines tight when parking up at night.