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Keyser Soze
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Looks llike Piers is on a roll.
On 1/12/17 8:34 PM,
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:50:01 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:
On 1/12/17 5:51 PM,
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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".
The words that mean "navy" go back to at least the 1300s and include
navee, nauye, navye, nauie, nauy, and others. Whether it was "accepted
here" is not relevant.
I suppose you have a cite for that.
My unabridged copy of the OED...would that do?
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