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Thread #77133   Message #3691350
Posted By: Rumncoke
04-Mar-15 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: DT Corr: The Shoals of Herring (Ewan MacColl)
Subject: RE: DT Corr: The Shoals of Herring (Ewan MacColl)
That 'sailing lugger' always gets changed to fishing lugger when I sing it - a lugger is a sailing vessel - lug sail - dead give away - so sailing lugger is

er

tautological?

Possibly - also a dead give away that the writer doesn't know luff from leech, not a clew, you could say.