[Ads-l] Word on billboard that one is not supposed to use (or mention). Allusions, anagrams, metaphors are probably ok.

Wed Jun 24 17:44:09 UTC 2015

Great work, JL and Bill. Bill's link did not work for me. Here is a
short link and long link for the Bill's "sea term" citation in a 1706
edition:

http://bit.ly/1NihjUq

https://books.google.com/books?id=PHBUAAAAYAAJ&q=Parbuncle#v=snippet&

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>               mention). Allusions, anagrams, metaphors are probably ok.
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> From (Captain) John Smith's _A Sea Grammar_ (1627), pp. 21-22:
>
> "The Canhookes are two hookes fastened to the end of a rope with a noose,
> like this the Brewers vse to [...]g or carry their barrels on, and those
> serue also to take in or out hog heads, or any other commoditie.  A Parbunkel
> is two ropes that haue at each end a noose or lumpe that being crossed, you
> may set any vessell that hath but one head vpon them, bringing but the
> loopes ouer the vpper end of the caske, fix but the tackle to them, and
> then the vessel will stand strait in the middest to heaue out, or take in
> without spilling."
>
> Git that?
>
> Thanks, EEBO!
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Has anyone seen a mention of the 1627 book that includes the word? Is it
>> possible the word is an invention?
>>
>> DanG
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>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:44 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
>> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >               Allusions, anagrams, metaphors are probably ok.
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>> > Below is a short link to the article mentioned in Bill's message. I
>> > changed the subject line.
>> >
>> > Article: Artist Posts 17th Century Word on Billboard, Asks That Nobody
>> > Else Use It
>> > Aurthor: Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska
>> > Timestamp: June 18, 2015 8:50am
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>> > http://dnain.fo/1QQe9ga
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>> > [Begin excerpt]
>> > A Brooklyn-based artist posted a rare 17th-century English word on a
>> > previously empty billboard in Forest Hills =E2=80=94 but she wants to be
>> > th=
>> > e
>> > only one using it.
>> >
>> > Julia Weist said she found the word, which means "coming together
>> > through the binding of two ropes," at the Rare Book Division of the
>> > New York Public Library in a 1627 publication about vocabulary related
>> > to sailors and their trade.
>> > [End excerpt]
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>> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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>> > > Subject:      Re: parbunkells (UNCLASSIFIED)
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>> > > Link doesn't work, Bill.
>> > >
>> > > JL
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
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