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Thread #110892   Message #3857990
Posted By: Joe Offer
30-May-17 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: bowline vs. bow line in canal songs
Subject: RE: bowline vs. bow line in canal songs
In the Boy Scouts of America, where I learned to tie a bowline one-handed and became county knot-tying champion, the pronunciation was BO-lin.
I can't imagine saying it any other way.

-Joe-