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| 730.1 | Tam O' Shanter? | AYOU17::NAYLOR | Purring on all 12 cylinders | Mon Jan 18 1988 06:18 | 7 |
| Don't know about the connection (if any) with Cutty Sark, but the
story of the witch chasing the rider and then catching the horses
tail as the rider escapes by jumping over running water sounds too
like "Tam O' Shanter" By Rabbie Burns to be true!
Brian
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| 730.2 | One maker says Cuddy | DSSDEV::JROBINSON | | Tue Jan 19 1988 13:05 | 4 |
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I have a brochure from Mistral describing a 16-footer with a
cuddy cabin, not a cutty cabin.
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| 730.3 | Don't beleive everything you read! | CSSE::GARDINER | Everyone's entitled to my opinion! | Wed Jan 20 1988 14:22 | 19 |
| RE: .-1 I can only say that there are so many misused phases in
the English (and I'm sure any) language that beleiving what one
sees in print could cause infinite confusion. The term colloquialism
was coined to define the misuse of words that are common.
Take for example the use of the term "Tact". Many people say they
are "taking a new tact" when in fact the phrase is "taking a new
Tack". Sound familiar??
The origin of words especially words from sailors or shipwrights
came from common usage and cannot be traced. One can only go back
so far and then it is a SWAG (Scientific _ _ Guess) from there on.
Good luck with your search for the truth.
Jeff
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| 730.4 | | MENTOR::REG | It was 20 years ago next May | Mon Jan 25 1988 13:55 | 13 |
| re .3 Well, sort of. I think of it more as evolution along
different lines than misuse. Words are adopted into a
craft/profession/industry/sub_culture at some point in time and
age differently on the outside, i.e. "Chandler" was a common enough
word at one time, there probably aren't any now and the word lives
on to represent the function that replaced it. Misuse ?, debatable.
Spelling changes with common usage too, when enough people use the
new (not necessarily wrong) spelling for a long time it becomes
the norm. Nite lite, etc.
Reg { colloquially abreviated, not acceptable 100 years ago }
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| 730.5 | Let's get back to CUDDY | CSSE::GARDINER | Everyone's entitled to my opinion! | Tue Jan 26 1988 16:55 | 15 |
| According to Webster's New World Unabridged Dictionary the term
"CUDDY" means a small covered section in the bow of a open boat.
The origin listed is "unknown". Therefore, I would assume that
if the term came from Cutty Sark there would be a reference.
The term "Cutty Sark" has the definition of being a small chemise
or undergarment.
I have checked several dictionaries from recent and past publications
and they all have similar desciptions. If some said the "CUDDY"
was a spin-off from "CUTTY SARK", I think they were creating a yarn
of their own.
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| 730.6 | English at it's finery | MPGS::KTISTAKIS | Michael Ktistakis 237-2208 | Mon Feb 01 1988 14:18 | 9 |
| The name "Cutty Sark"comes from Robert Burn's poem "Tam O'Shanter"
in which a Scottish farmer is chased by a witch called Nannie who
wore only "Her cutty sark,o'Paisley harn,"which is to say "her
short shirt of coarse Paisley linen".
Copied from The Guinness book of ships and shipping "Facts & Feats.
My God I don't want anybody to think that I am into poetry or for
the people who know me that my English have improve so much that
they now can understand me.Please put a comma after God.
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