Sometimes Sayings.

Wrong Morris, it was a bark that was used.

I thought I would get more replies to last week's saying but only V8Ian replied.
Yes, Captain Cook's ship was a Bark, usually spelled Barque. A sailing ship of three or more masts but the saying would not have scanned correctly.

He actually CIRCUMNAVIGATED (travelled around) the world not CIRCUMCISED (as in cut the foreskin off a male person or animal) but maybe you did not want to correct my intentional error in an effort to save me from looking ignorant?

Morris wrote:

I thought I would get more replies to last week's saying but only V8Ian replied.
Yes, Captain Cook's ship was a Bark, usually spelled Barque. A sailing ship of three or more masts but the saying would not have scanned correctly.

He actually CIRCUMNAVIGATED (travelled around) the world not CIRCUMCISED (as in cut the foreskin off a male person or animal) but maybe you did not want to correct my intentional error in an effort to save me from looking ignorant?

I was onto your play on words, Morris. I thought the vessel was spelt "barque" but googled it, to be sure, to be sure. Google said it was spelt "bark", just goes to show, unlike Mrs. V, Google doesn't know everything.

That's interesting V8Ian, Mrs Morris knows everything and she is an expert in everything I try to do around the house and when driving and navigating as well.

Morris and Ian, you both just confirmed publicly that you both married women. They are different but definitely all the same. Mine is not only an expert at everything but also a walking encyclopedia. I keep trying to convince her that the only other alleged perfect being to inhabit the earth was nailed up, so she should be careful.

Oh yes, wee allis; there're all sisters living in different houses.

Google (American) versus the now Kings English.
Jail - Gaol
No wonder there is a problem with Bark - Barque

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.The defining factor is the fore and aft sail on the mizzen (helps to sail closer to the wind and speeds up manoeuvres)

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