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Thread #57499 Message #3333603
Posted By: GUEST,LIghter
04-Apr-12 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: What exactly is a sea shanty?
Subject: RE: What exactly is a sea shanty?
Charley, you mean you didn't insist?!
But maybe they were about the Peace Corps....
But seriously, these cases are significant: what are the chances that people in Gurage, Ethiopia, or in Gambia, learned the modal, yelping style from Stan Hugill?
Zero.
What are the chances that Stan learned it from his West Indian informants, who'd learned it from ancient practice?