[Rhodes22-list] lazaret v. lazarrette

Michael Meltzer mjm@michaelmeltzer.com
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:47:28 -0400


well adcording to the spellchecker

Lazaret will become Lazarus
Lazarette will become Lazaretto
Lazaretto will stay Lazaretto, but not even mw would have guessed that spelling :-)


MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Effros" <bill@effros.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] lazaret v. lazarrette


> Neither my Webster's New Collegiate nor my Oxford English Dictionary shows
> "lazarrette" with 2 "r"s:
> 
> Lazaret -- English Nautical
> Lazarette -- French Spelling of Italian Word.
> Lazaretto -- Italian Nautical -- Origin of term.
> 
> Bill Effros
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "brad haslett" <flybrad@yahoo.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 4:38 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] lazaret v. lazarrette
> 
> 
> Oops! Tab versus send.
> 
> Lazaret/ a space in a ship between decks used as a
> storeroom/ Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.
> 
> Lazarrette/ French word for area where water collects
> in a boat and becomes a MPITA.
> 
> If your bilge is always dry, you expect it to be dry
> forever, you can't possibly have a wet bilge, STOP!
> This message is not for you.
> 
> For the rest of you, I don't know exactly the source
> of the water but I suspect it was a combination of a
> stopped-up seat drain and a cracked
> "thru-the-hull-fitting".  I replaced the drains and
> hose with the next size larger (that's what was
> available at my local marine store in "Bubba land"
> better known as Bass Pro Shop.  For those of you who
> are rocket scientists I went from 3/4 to 1 and 1/8 so
> do the math. Where I come from pie is round and cake
> are square.  It looks much bigger and will handle more
> leaves/water/stuff.
> 
> New plastic is less brittle than old plastic.  For
> less than $30 I've been able to replace all the drains
> and hoses.  I think the problem is solved.  Thanks for
> all your input.
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> 
> 
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