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That sentence is everything wrong with the world.

I am just now reading that the addition of four collapsible lifeboats was what went beyond requirements. Two of those boats were not "properly launched". Collapsible A was washed off the deck with a very few people aboard, and went into the water half submerged. Collapsible B had fallen upside down on the deck while being dismounted and subsequently abandoned, but it floated off (still inverted), and some crew were able to cling to it and survive.

Once "full", however, they had to shove their crewmates still in the water away to prevent it from capsizing.

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Except they kind of didn't. When books were handwritten by scribes, every scribe used their own local variation of spelling to suit the wealthy buyer who had commissioned them. Later, it was in the best interest of typesetters for books to be readable by the most number of (wealthy literate) people, because they were creating more books on spec to be printed first and bought later, instead of creating each one bespoke for the buyer.

But ... then as now, there were all sorts of different dialects of English across Britain. People in the north pronounced things differently from people in Wales, Cornwall, London, etc. This was even a known problem at the time: what spelling to use when your book had to be saleable across so many different pronounciations? A lot of it was kind of an arbitrary choice, with most of the spellings matching London speech, and some matching northern speech.

I have to imagine that even at the time, there were people who read available books and wondered "Why did they spell it like that?" It's because printing made books "global" in a language and spelling landscape which was very "local".

I knew it was a quote from somewhere, I just didn't care. ;)

Almost anywhere you see a "gh" in an English word is a holdover from Old or Middle English. Those letters were originally pronounced as a kind of "back of the mouth scratchy cough-hack sound." Hard to describe in words, it's not a sound found in English anymore, because the Norman French didn't have it in their language when they conquered Britain. The spellings hung on long enough that they were made permanent by the printing press, but all of the different pronouciations come from various forms of French.

Almost, because I remembered the example word "ghost". English previously commonly spelled this word "gost" (or in Old English, "gast"), but Flemish typesetters felt like putting an h in there to match their word, "gheest". Because there really weren't spelling rules until typesetters started working, and we got a good number of modern spelling rules from them, after Caxton brought a press to London in 1476.

It was always originally "inflammable", as in "able to be inflamed". It wasn't until cargo warning placards came around (for trains, I'm sure), that the meaning got muddled up with "unable to be brought to flame".

There was an official agreement to create the word "flammable", and use that on warning placards instead.

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Only available for iOS. Android would apparently "require an account in order to send push notifications" to other people, which would ruin anonymity.

Oh, of course. He's very familiar with his area and the best materials to use, and has lots of practice. But he's also pretty famous for showing his work without cuts, and I am always amazed with his hand drill skills. He's got an ember in like twenty seconds.

Even the best struggle.

I have watched Primitive Technology start fires with a hand drill so many times, he's got it down pat.