Rum_Pirate
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Is the correct term
TELL TAIL
or
TELL TAIL ?
Please help us the uneducated. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
TELL TAIL
or
TELL TAIL ?
Please help us the uneducated. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Which is the correct term
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Captain Coochie
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Is the correct term
TELL TAIL
or
TELL TAIL ?
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Is the correct term
TELL TAIL
or
TELL TAIL ?
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/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Sorry i tell told .
Victorious
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If you dont put it in writing.... It dont matter
Peterduck
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The correct form is tell-tale, in spite of twice as many people voting for the wrong one as those voting for the right one.
Peter.
Peter.
Kilter
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The technical term is: "those pieces of string on the flappiest side of the sail"
Hope this helps! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hope this helps! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
old_salt
Well-Known Member
There are three versions of TELLTALE (all one word)
So both the above are wrong.
What I have found.
Quotes from various old books:-
(1) Talltale.
Traditionally a small compass attached to the deckhead in the master's cabin so that he could check the ship's course while lying in his bunk!
(2) Talltale.
Short lengths of wool tied to the shrouds which enable the inexperienced helmsman to see the wind.
(3) Talltale.
The name used on yachts for the five-inch length's of wool sewn at intervals just abaft the luff of a sail to indicate the airflow.
So both the above are wrong.
What I have found.
Quotes from various old books:-
(1) Talltale.
Traditionally a small compass attached to the deckhead in the master's cabin so that he could check the ship's course while lying in his bunk!
(2) Talltale.
Short lengths of wool tied to the shrouds which enable the inexperienced helmsman to see the wind.
(3) Talltale.
The name used on yachts for the five-inch length's of wool sewn at intervals just abaft the luff of a sail to indicate the airflow.
Rum_Pirate
Well-Known Member
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Is the correct term TELL TAIL or TELL TAIL ?
[/ QUOTE ] I obviously cannot make head nor tail/tale of this situation. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Is the correct term TELL TAIL or TELL TAIL ?
[/ QUOTE ] I obviously cannot make head nor tail/tale of this situation. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
tyga
Active Member
4) Talltale - a breathless yarn from an old seadog? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
cliffordpope
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Whatever they are called, I have never seen the point of them, nor of a burgee. I just feel the wind on my cheek, watch the sail, feel the pull on the tiller, sense the heel of the boat, hear the foaming under the forefoot, and watch the ripples on the water for wind coming up.
It's an instinctive thing - what's a bit of flying litter caught in the shrouds got to do with it?
It's an instinctive thing - what's a bit of flying litter caught in the shrouds got to do with it?
Cobra
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You do realise...
...had you have posted this on Scuttlebutt you would have had over 100 responses by now and would be still no nearer the correct answer!
...had you have posted this on Scuttlebutt you would have had over 100 responses by now and would be still no nearer the correct answer!
DR007
Member
Re: You do realise...
I thought a 'tell tale' was someone who told tales or tall stories, or a snitch who got you into trouble to make them look better than you! I would have thought the correct term is 'tell tail' being that this little bit of fluff (if you can believe any little bit of fluff) flies in the wind to show direction of flow. Course bits of fluff don't always fly anywhere, depends if there is any wind, natural or from elsewhere. perhaps I had better stop gassing and fly off to fix my tails. Cheers everyone, Kevin
I thought a 'tell tale' was someone who told tales or tall stories, or a snitch who got you into trouble to make them look better than you! I would have thought the correct term is 'tell tail' being that this little bit of fluff (if you can believe any little bit of fluff) flies in the wind to show direction of flow. Course bits of fluff don't always fly anywhere, depends if there is any wind, natural or from elsewhere. perhaps I had better stop gassing and fly off to fix my tails. Cheers everyone, Kevin
brianrunyard
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Re: You do realise...
Tell tale, because it tells you a tale (gives information), nothing to do with a furry bit sticking out of your rear end!!!
Tell-tale "A device for automatic monitoring or registering of a process etc".
Tell tale, because it tells you a tale (gives information), nothing to do with a furry bit sticking out of your rear end!!!
Tell-tale "A device for automatic monitoring or registering of a process etc".
ccscott49
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Tell tale, because it "tells tales" (spills the beans) about the wind or anything else is doing, that the "tell tale" is for!!!
grumpydog
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Definitely Tell Tale - or, if you prefer, tell-tale with a hyphen. Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea gives a third alternative: telltale as one word. I would hyphenate it personally. I have often seen tell-tales made of old cassette tape: what would you get if you played that tape I wonder? Something someone threw away, perhaps because of embarrassment! Yes albums fluttering in the wind anyone?
ADLS
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There's me finking it's a piece of glass applied across a crack in a building to see if it's still moving.