Re: New version of TR29:

From: John Wilcock (john@tradoc.fr)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 11:08:23 EDT

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On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:04:08 -0400 (EDT), John Cowan wrote:
> > True. But lo! you have inadvertently misspelled it! It isn't fo'c'sle
> > -- it's fo'c's'le! (New Oxford, 2001). It's pronounced ['fouksel].
>
> What an absurd spelling.

Not at all. It's an abbreviated form of forecastle, with apostrophes
wherever letters are missed out.

John.

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