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Thread #128220 Message #3094949
Posted By: Charley Noble
14-Feb-11 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Odd little bits and pieces but interesting as usual.
I haven't run into "shanter"but doesn't "chanter" harken back to Nordhoff, or at least to one edition of his book? My edition, The Merchant Vessel (1895), actually has "chanty-man."