Re: Tall ****ps Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
> 
> "Andy Champ" <no.way@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
>>>
>>> I hope not because a brigantine is a two-masted, square-rigged ****p 
>>> with fore and aft mainsail. A 'brig' is a lubberly shortening of the 
>>> word 'brigantine.'
>>>
>>> Wilbur Hubbard
>>
>> http://www.answers.com/brig&r=67
>>
>> Note that the first definition is from the *American* heritage 
>> dictionary (so this is not your language being differnt!), and it has 
>> a link to brigantine with the description of the different rig.
>>
>> Andy
> 
> Wrong! Let me repeat. A brigantine is a two masted vessel, square-rigged

> but with fore and aft mainsail. 
>
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/data/d0002703.html

> 
> 
> http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/brigantine
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> http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html#B
> 
> note: a gaff sail is a fore and aft sail.
> 
> Wilbur Hubbard

Perhaps my snipping is innacurate, or perhaps you are trolling (and no, 
I am not referring to piscatorial activities) but it seems to me that 
the three links you have given all have seperate definitions for "Brig", 
and none of them suggest that it is merely "a lubberly shortening of the 
  word 'brigantine' ".

This has little to do with whether the Trust is correct to sell its
vessel.

Andy