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Default Seeing is believing

Capt. JG wrote:
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Martin Baxter wrote:
Gordon wrote:
I feel like a democrat by making fun of this person but I can't
resist.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/boa/1036942315.html
Gordon

Why? Because they used "Gun Wall" instead of "gunwale"?

That is what it means.

Etymology: 1466, gonne walle, or in modern English, gun plank,,,


Cheers
Martin
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Now if he had said gunnel....



I thought that would be gunsel.

Only if yer selin ter gun...
 
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