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Before the yacht was launched, before it was first put in the water, there was a big problem with rats entering through the large holes in the bottom of the hul
by Buttons840 5y ago
Before the yacht was launched, before it was first put in the water, there was a big problem with rats entering through the large holes in the bottom of the hull. To remedy the situation, the yacht builders began feeding a large number of cats around the base of the yacht while they finished the furnishings and painted the gold trims. The rat problem was solved and the happy day of launch is near.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoThey'll just hire a million little Dutch boys with SCUBA to put their fingers where less wholy materials up to ship-building codes belongs. Problem solved!
- gerdesj 5y agowholy -> holey? Definitely not wholy. That's partly wholly. Wholly is derived from whole (all/everything/complete) and not relating to a hole. This is an adjective derived from a noun, so hole -> holey. It could be hole + ly -> holely but it isn't. Now, we have the word pinned down. How on earth do you pronounce the bloody thing? For me (en_GB): hole-ee. The dash "-" is not a pause, I would run the word hole straight into the ee sound. The ee phoneme is quite short.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoHoley'ier than thou? I kant splel. Edit: I blame running out of coffee and almost falling-asleep at the keybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbndfjhkngbc
- pkulak 5y agoThat is really great, haha. What's it from?