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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat - Naval slang and its everyday usage (Hardcover)
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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat - Naval slang and its everyday usage (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 2 840
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As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls
off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms
like these are used in everyday English language conversation and
writing. But how many landlubbers know that they derive from naval
slang or know what the phrase originally referred to? The navy has
helped to shape modern society. The navy is famous for its
traditions, quirks and nuances. It is disinctly different to wider
society and nowhere is this more evident than in language. The
naval community once had its own language, incomprehensible to
anyone who was not a sailor, which described and explained his
unique world. But on shore leave these men introduced their
language to the populations of bustling ports and harbours and the
usage slowly spread inland. Today through the mediums of film,
television and music, naval slang has been brought to the wider
public and has become fully integrated into the English language to
point where many phrases are used by people who have no concept of
their meaning. Presenting terminology thematically, this book
provides a compilation of naval slang throughout the world, from
terms relating to ship-handling and seamanship through to food and
drink, discipline and insults. The text is further enhanced with
original black line drawings that illustrate certain technical
terms, such as ''splice the mainbrace''.
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