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Written as an etymology for all salty-minded people, this book explains the shipboard beginnings of over 200 words and expressions and is illustrated by the author's own cartoons.
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A book uniquely combining humour with nautical scholarship - most of us never realise how many words used in every day English have a fascinating nautical origin.
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?The book is sprinkled with the delightful cartoons of Beavis, a seaman turned journalist.?
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- PublisherAdlard Coles Nautical
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0713637161
- ISBN 13 9780713637168
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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