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Thread #68176   Message #1145439
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Mar-04 - 10:36 PM
Thread Name: Is 'shanty' derived from 'chanson'
Subject: RE: Is 'shanty' derived from 'chanson'
Shandy in Canada as well. I don't think Americans ever got a taste for it.
Shanty as a name for a place selling liquor is well-known in Australia.
Shanty applied to cow sheds and shacks in the USA (in fact all over) in the 1820s etc., and Traill spoke of log huts as shantys in Canada in the 1830s (not just loggers' huts- leads me to suspect that the name might have come across the pond with immigrants.