I thought that shanty town and shanty for a song were linked as so many shanties have verses which travel between them, so a song made up of bits and pieces, just like the shanty dwellings which are generally made from whatever can be got together and nailed/lashed into place.

Aren't 'potties' called shunties 'cos they get shunted under the bed, slight links with guzunder - goes under the bed?

Woa! a chanty is a cupboard (or maybe alcove?) for oddments - there was someone who called the out house a chanty when I was at home - long time ago that - the council house we lived in had a coal house one side and a store room the other - we called it an out house but one of the neighbours called it the chanty - but ch as in church. I haven't heard that for maybe 50 years. How time flies.

Anne Croucher