On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:04:08 -0400 (EDT), John Cowan wrote:
> > True. But lo! you have inadvertently misspelled it! It isn't fo'c'sle
> > -- it's fo'c's'le! (New Oxford, 2001). It's pronounced ['fouksel].
>
> What an absurd spelling.
Not at all. It's an abbreviated form of forecastle, with apostrophes
wherever letters are missed out.
John.
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