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Thread #125224   Message #4165713
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
21-Feb-23 - 05:00 AM
Thread Name: Shanty or Chantey?
Subject: RE: Shanty or Chantey?
Correction to the above: _Seeing the World_ was published first in 1867.

That's important, because variations of "chanty" were pretty well known in literature by 1886. In 1867 they were not.

Now was it Nordhoff that revised as "chaunty-man," or the editor 9with or without Nordhoff's input)?