books.google.co.uk - The Language of Sailing shows how many of the English and American words in question are derived - often in complex and controversial ways - from other languages. The diction of the sea is a huge, hybrid skein, much traceable as far back as Sanskrit. Seafaring has knitted Europeans together, sometimes...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Language_of_Sailing.html?id=Fp63wWByImQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Language of Sailing
