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Thread #96880   Message #1901516
Posted By: EBarnacle
06-Dec-06 - 10:15 AM
Thread Name: How the words change
Subject: RE: How the words change
"Cast the glamour over"--It is my understanding that Romany men used "glamor," mare's sweat, as a cologne, with the intent of attracting women. So, casting a spell would be appropriate.

The author of "Last Night I had the Strangest Dream" used to become livid that people would change the word "never" to "ever," as in "Last night I had the strangest dream I never dreamed before."

In the "Ballad of Sammy's Bar," I change a verse to create a deliberate ambiguity because I like it better that way.

"Fiddler's Green" has a change that seems to have been stuck in "on Fiddler's Green" insteat of "in" as written because too many people do not seem to understand that Fiddler's Green, sailor's Heaven, is a place to be in, rather than being seen on the the Green. Even though it is counterintuitive, in is correct.

"Mary L. McKay" had quite a few errors creep in between the time that it was written and the time that Creighton recorded it that the best you can do is refer to the thread for a list. The most egregious is "a howler o'er the topsail" in place of "a howler o'er the toprail," which would create significantly sailing conditions.