[TheForge] Coak

[Bruce .]

The spyders would still pick it up.

"BS" does mean "blacksmithing" -- right?

Bruce
NJ

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:15 PM, David E. Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh BS Bruce,  Just call it metallurgical coke, which it is and be done with
> it.
>
> Dave Smucker
> Brasstown, NC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Bruce
> .
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 8:02 AM
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: [TheForge] Coak
>
> I find myself  cringing every time I compose a message in which I need to
> name that well-known product of partial combustion of coal that shares a
> name with a soft drink from Atlanta and, in particular, with a street drug.
> I really don't want my every email to be subject to scrutiny by the
> authorities.  (A mild paranoia is the sign of a healthy mind.)
>
> Spellings are standardized these days, but that wasn't always true.  Hence,
> exerting a small bit of poetic (?) license, I tried an alternative spelling
> (see subject line).  Of course, I wouldn't insist that anyone ELSE use this
> spelling, I'm mainly interested whether you'd recognise the meaning.  Think
> "Cook Coal to make Coak".
>
> Now if that novel spelling doesn't please you, one could use the old
> spelling, "colk", which the "Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology"
> (Doesn't EVERYBODY have a copy of that?) lists our current spelling as
> first
> recorded in the 17th century, and probably alternative spelling of the word
> (as opposed to a distinct word) which was first recorded in the 14th
> century.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> Bruce
> NJ
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