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Thread #76342   Message #1352679
Posted By: Manitas_at_home
10-Dec-04 - 03:33 AM
Thread Name: Learn to spell ACCORDION
Subject: RE: Learn to spell ACCORDION
Definitely "shanty" and that's according to Stan Hugill. If you don't agree with him there's no hope!

There is a theory that the word has the same origin as shanty ie. sean tigh or old hut. In the West Indies huts built on stilts were often just picked up and moved to other locations and work songs were sung while doing it!