Talk:Boatswain
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[edit] Annoying edit
It's slightly annoying that 169.157.229.67 felt the need to gratuitously Americanise the spelling of "colours". PeteVerdon
- You mean "Americanize"? :-) :-) Stan 06:27, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- I'm also a little vexed that you decided gratuitously to split the infinitive of the verb "to Americanize", Pete... :-) -- Picapica 14:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- You mean use a form of language invented in England (and used in the US), instead of one invented in France (and used in England)...220.253.50.159 12:55, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question
All this, and no one can explain why boatswain sounds like bosun. And speaking of that, what does bosun sound like? D. F. Schmidt 03:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
