Re: medieval english was knight ranks and titles

James Dolan wrote:
>
> 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--

In the movie she doesn't say "yawl." Is this maybe from a Lux Radio
Theatre (hosted by Cecil B. DeMille) script? How many of the original
cast participated in the broadcast? Or is it from the play rather than
the movie?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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