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November 29th 04, 07:32 AM
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FGW Link excels even Thames Strains at public safety (lack of ...)
"Michael Hoffman" wrote in message ... Huge wrote: (S.Byers) writes: The 11.53 today (Sunday) ex-Hayes to Paddington FGWL strain arrived - well eventually - fully 25 minutes late - but packed to the gunnels. It's "gunwhales", BTW. According to the OED it is either "gunwale" or "gunnel" as the original poster spelled it. Of course it additionally lists archaic variant spellings such as the one you used and gonne walle, gunwayle, gunwaile, gun-wall, gun(n)al, and gunhill. -- Michael Hoffman Yes okay the train was chock a block - we get the picture and we are more concerned with the situation on the trains than the correct use of nautical below the decks terminology. |
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November 29th 04, 11:12 AM
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FGW Link excels even Thames Strains at public safety (lack of ...)
In article ,
Skokkie wrote: Yes okay the train was chock a block - we get the picture and we are more concerned with the situation on the trains than the correct use of nautical below the decks terminology. I believe the gunwales are (just) above the decks ... Nick -- http://www.leverton.org/ ... So express yourself |
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November 29th 04, 01:25 PM
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FGW Link excels even Thames Strains at public safety (lack of ...)
"Nick Leverton" wrote in message ... In article , Skokkie wrote: Yes okay the train was chock a block - we get the picture and we are more concerned with the situation on the trains than the correct use of nautical below the decks terminology. I believe the gunwales are (just) above the decks ... Yeah but the riff raff below the decks used diverse colloquialisms to describe them |
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