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Re: Anchor terminology

From: Ralph Ferris <ralph@fsc.fujitsu.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:56:21 -0800
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961230015621.006c003c@pophost.fsc.fujitsu.com>
To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org 
At 07:19 PM 12/29/96 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
>Nelson's spokesman, Martin Bryan, said
>
>   Lets stick to old English usage, as expressed by our sailors if we are going
>   to be consistent!
>
>You mean like "abandon ship!"...:-)
>
>///Peter

Probably more like:

                  "When at anchor here I ride,
                   My bosom swells with pride!
                   And I snap my fingers at the foe-man's taunts  ..."

                - Gilbert and Sullivan, "HMS Pinafore"


--Ralph
Received on Sunday, 29 December 1996 21:02:15 EST

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