ospalhThe etimology for »bitter end« otoh i didn’t believe either, and there the one in #Jackspeak was right.
Wiktionary:
That part of an anchor cable which is abaft the bitts and thus remains inboard when a ship is riding at anchor.
Also, there ar different ways to turn a dictionary into an e-book:
•Yu could make sure that for every entry the word that’s defind gets is own CSS class and is set , idk, bold. Also it gets an anchor, and every time another entry references it yu get a nice link.
•Yu could also just use the raw text, put the whole text in italics for no reason, and just slap an ASCII-»*« in front of every cross reference.
What i’m saying is: don’t buy the #Jackspeak #epub #digitalTypography 😩
Eh, the »four cannonballs on a brass plate« theory for »brass monkey« and »freezing the balls off a brass monkey« »#Jackspeak« sounded unbelievable, on physical and linguistic grounds. And, sure enuf, everibody else agrees that that is a tall tale.
#OspalhReads #BrassMonkey #English #Idiom
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13194771-jackspeak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_monkey_(colloquialism)#Supposed_etymology
Jon Hunt 🇪🇺I'm reading #JackSpeak by Rick Jolley and illustrated by the legendary #Tigg. What a magnus opus and packed full of memories. #RoyalNavy #bookstodon