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Thread #37855   Message #529452
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Aug-01 - 02:27 PM
Thread Name: Need help with sea term: flaked or faked
Subject: RE: Need help with sea term: flaked or faked
Unless it's a typographival error that he missed reading the proofs, if Stan Hugill said it was "flaked", it was sung as "flaked". Which doesn't mean to say that it mightn't have been sung as "faked" as well.

Of course a typographical error is always possible. Does the word come up in any other shanties in the book or in the notes?