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The Fifty-week Book Tour

This interview was conducted by the award-winning New Zealand maritime historian and author Joan Druett, who published it on her blog, World of the Written Word.

I am grateful to Joan for the interview, and for her permission to repost it here.

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Maritime Style Sheet (with NATO phonetic alphabet)

The maritime world is filled with specialist vocabulary the conventional spelling of which is not always obvious. Boatswain/bosun and forecastle/focsle are among the best-known examples of words that have two accepted spellings, one etymologically correct, the other based on pronunciation. Another source of uncertainty is whether a term is one word or two, or hyphenated, as in sea anchor, seabag, sea bass, seabed, sea-lane.

This list is my attempt to impose a bit of order on the subject. It is by no means immutable, and I welcome suggestions, corrections, and discussion about the choices reflected here.

A: Alpha
admiral (rear a.; vice a., etc.)
Admiralty, the
admiralty law
admiral of the fleet
aftercastle
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