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Thread #37855   Message #529477
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
16-Aug-01 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: Need help with sea term: flaked or faked
Subject: RE: Need help with sea term: flaked or faked
Radioano, you will just have to go back and record a companion version so both fake and flake supporters are happy. Stuart, Seamans Catechism, 1860- "The chain cables and messengers are faked in the chain lockers." (quoted in OED). Flake: Quote from Capt. Smith, 1626- "Coyle your cable in small flakes." (also OED). Later applied to wire cable in electrical applications. Could this also be a case of shifting pronounciation? An example is asphalt, which often is pronounced ash-phalt.