TIL that the forward part of a ship, the forecastle, is pronounced (and sometimes written as) "fo'c'sle"
teft @ teft @lemmy.world Posts 13Comments 1,699Joined 2 yr. ago

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Lots of naval terms aren't pronounced the way you would think, e.g. boatswain and gunwale pronounced differently than they are spelled.
Boatswain sounds like bo-sun
Gunwale sounds like gun-ull