Re: medieval english was knight ranks and titles

in article <434F2E2F.3063@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
peter t. daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|> > It's used in the film in a sense of 'super-shipshape'.
|>
|> Are you sure? According to my SOD, it means "responsive to the
|> helm" in old nautical usage.
|
|Actually she has quite a speech rhapsodizing over the model of it,
|which for the landlubber boils down to "shipshape."


from <http://www.fakeradio.net/scripts/casap.htm>:

TRACY: Oh, a wedding present. From Dext. A picture of the True
Love. We sailed her up the coast of Maine and back the summer we were
married. My, she was yawl.

GEORGE: Yawl? What's that?

TRACY: It means, oh, easy to handle, quick to the helm. Fast,
bright. Everything a boat should be. Until it develops dry
rot. (starts to cry) Oh, George--

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