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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Steve Gardham	Shanty or Chantey? (197* d)	RE: Shanty or Chantey?	23 Feb 23
'who is doing the talking'. Well that would be the stevedores and cotton-screwers initially, largely of African-American origin, where we get the first use of 'chantyman' and then the spread to shipboard. We're not actually looking at the practice itself here, just the evolution of the word. I'm going back earlier than Nordhoff. Sorry!

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