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prettygoodwordkeel (KEEL) - n., a measure of coal equivalent to 21.2 long tons, 424 hundredweight, or 21.5 metric tons.
Or more derivatively, the amount of coal that can be carried by a keelboat on the Tyne and Wear rivers of England -- a keelboat being a type of flat-bottomed barge with a keel (so it can sail into the wind) particular to those rivers. Interestingly, the keel on a keelboat is not the same keel: the keel beneath a boat is from Old English (and before that Old Norse) while the keel- of keelboat is from Dutch, both ultimately from the same Germanic root.
Meta note I’ve been meaning to mention for a while now: Most of my pronunciation guides are I think pretty clear, but there’s one vowel sound that’s not entirely intuitive: in my system, the vowel sound that is the word eye 👁 is rendered as AI. This means that I give the pronunciation of lied as LAID (while laid is LAYD). My mnemonic for this is “the final sound of samurAI.”
---L.
Or more derivatively, the amount of coal that can be carried by a keelboat on the Tyne and Wear rivers of England -- a keelboat being a type of flat-bottomed barge with a keel (so it can sail into the wind) particular to those rivers. Interestingly, the keel on a keelboat is not the same keel: the keel beneath a boat is from Old English (and before that Old Norse) while the keel- of keelboat is from Dutch, both ultimately from the same Germanic root.
Meta note I’ve been meaning to mention for a while now: Most of my pronunciation guides are I think pretty clear, but there’s one vowel sound that’s not entirely intuitive: in my system, the vowel sound that is the word eye 👁 is rendered as AI. This means that I give the pronunciation of lied as LAID (while laid is LAYD). My mnemonic for this is “the final sound of samurAI.”
---L.
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Date: 2022-12-14 05:47 pm (UTC)Thanks for the mnemonic!
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Date: 2022-12-14 08:22 pm (UTC)Surely!