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Default Looks llike Piers is on a roll.
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:51:19 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:51:56 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

I spell navee the way it was officially spelled in the past.

Only if your historian is Gilbert and Sullivan ... but perhaps it is.
You are much stronger on fiction than fact.

"Navee" comes from the lyrics of HMS Pinafore, simply so those
liberal arts singers would keep the meter right and that is the only
reference I have ever seen.
I understand you have an affinity for the 18th century for the Royal
Navy when the tradition was flogging, rum and sodomy but I find no
reference that they spelled it "Navee".
It certainly never was accepted here.
The Constitution article 1 Section 8 (13): says
"To provide and maintain a NAVY".

In none of Patrick O'Brian's 20 novels do I recall seeing the word 'navee'.
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