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Why are boat names feminine?
Hi!
Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever they have a masculin name? Remko |
Why are boat names feminine?
wrote in message oups.com... Hi! Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever they have a masculin name? Remko Ancient tradition. Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck. Same with bananas and umbrellas today. Eisboch |
Why are boat names feminine?
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Why are boat names feminine?
I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the
Russian custom is masculine names. Perhaps someone else can confirm this. Mark Browne wrote: Hi! Why are boat names most of times feminine or general but hardly ever they have a masculin name? Remko |
Why are boat names feminine?
wrote: I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the Russian custom is masculine names. Perhaps someone else can confirm this. Mark Browne I dunno, but maybe with enough Vodka and snowed in for the winter in some isolated cabin in the most remote reaches of Siberia guys start looking good......Naw, personally can't even imagine it. :-) I don't know much about the Russian language, maybe "boat" is a masculine noun in Russian- but I didn't think their nouns were gender specific. |
Why are boat names feminine?
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: Ancient tradition. Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck. Same with bananas and umbrellas today. Is a T-Top considered an umbrella? And what about a banana boat? hard luck and trouble all the way around? |
Why are boat names feminine?
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Why are boat names feminine?
wrote in message oups.com... Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: Ancient tradition. Women aboard was also considered to bring bad luck. Same with bananas and umbrellas today. Is a T-Top considered an umbrella? And what about a banana boat? hard luck and trouble all the way around? The morning we left on our voyage to Florida, my brother's wife supplied a bunch of bananas as some last minute provisions .. Horrified, we took them off the boat and, as a joke, put them in the cockpit of a friend's boat next to us. 2 weeks later I heard he blew an engine. Eisboch |
Boatin Superstitions (was Why are boat names feminine?)
Here are a few links:
http://pacificoffshorerigging.com/na...erstitions.htm http://www.boatus.com/goodoldboat/naming.htm (classic re-naming ceremony) http://www.csicop.org/superstition/library/sailors.html http://keywestcharterboats.com/nobananas.html (about bananas) Eisboch |
Why are boat names feminine?
Stan (the Man) wrote:
wrote: I am not certain this is true, but I recall reading somewhere that the Russian custom is masculine names. Perhaps someone else can confirm this. Not so difficult to understand. Have you ever seen a Russian woman? Nothin' wrong with a good 'tractor woman' when there's work to be done in the fields. |
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