Corking...

[Carl Cramer]

A GREAT video from WoodenBoat TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=2Knn6oe9zHw

Thanks to the good people on Schooner Adventuress. This made my day.

Carl

[wizbang 13]

As a West Indian caulker would say, to distinguish himself from the planker, "I a cocker, not a pricker".
The pricker does the plank spiling, he pricks the staph (batten) with the compass (divider). some know that , some don't

[Gerarddm]

I have always disliked that caulking is vocalized as 'corking'. Anybody know why the pronounciation is the way it is?

[Captain Intrepid]

I have always disliked that caulking is vocalized as 'corking'. Anybody know why the pronounciation is the way it is?

It's a regionalism. It depends where you are. Someplaces it is pronounced 'cocking'. Kinda like 'boy' verses 'boo-ey'.

[Hallam]

I have always disliked that caulking is vocalized as 'corking'. Anybody know why the pronounciation is the way it is?

It's because when the winds of change blow some people build walls and others build windmills

[Breakaway]

Here in Noo Yawk, we say Cawk.

Kevin

[Gerarddm]

As an ex-New Yorker, I'm with you, Kevin, windmills be damned. :-)

[McMike]

It's a regionalism. It depends where you are. Someplaces it is pronounced 'cocking'. Kinda like 'boy' verses 'boo-ey'.

Lmao!

[Kevin G]

I was looking for a bottle of wine.
kg

[Vince Brennan]

I was looking for a bottle of wine.
kg

"Her majesty's a Pretty fine girl..." Oh. Sorry. Wrong thread.

BUT: as long as we're starting the pronunciation wars again, WHY is it "Ground Taykle", not "Ground Tackle"?

Just askin'.

[Gerarddm]

It IS tackle.

What else could it possibly be?

;-)

Somethings just are, ya know? Like Paris is just that, not Paree. Did they call Paris of Troy Paree? I think not.

[jonboy]

or as some yanqui politician allegedly said when asked why he was anti languages being taught in American schools... 'if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me...'
And I'm inclined to say ' caulking' sounding the l as a back of the throat almost lost glottal stop.... sort of subtle call-king and what the bijaysus is ground tayckle...your fishing stuff is fishing tackle, when you play football soccer rugby it's tackle, your manhood's your wedding tackle, where does the tay come from ?

[tigerregis]

Who opened this can this time? lol Who can tell me why one could say in the boardrooms of the nation, "don't get too big for your britches" and no one would think you lesser for it. However, if one says "my brother and I went down to the crick and caught six trout", you would be considered a hick. Breeches and creeks have been called britches and cricks since been has been bin. still lol. Who Tf knows 'cept some linguist(and the sob that mentions Noam Chomsky gets a slap to the cheen).

[chas]

I cork my boats and caulk my windows, however you wants to spell it. / Jim

[Bob Triggs]

A GREAT video from WoodenBoat TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=2Knn6oe9zHw

Thanks to the good people on Schooner Adventuress. This made my day.Carl

A few great moments there of the late Master "Corker", Eric "Moose" Wilson. We miss him around here.

[Ron Williamson]

Jim/chas
Whaboot yer boots,seein's how yer livin' on the coast?
R

[chas]

Someone stole me cork boots, in Alberta. Damn Newfs, i shoulda nailed them down! / Jim

[Bob Cleek]

"Corking" offends my West Coast ears, too. Yes, there are regional differences. In America we call them frames and anybody who calls them ribs is betraying themselves as lubbers in much the same way that newspaper reporters do when perpetually referring to the bow of a boat as her "prow." In the British Isles, it is common to hear boatbuilders and others refer to frames as ribs. As for "cawlking or "cawking"" vs. "corking," I don't think it is a regional thing at all, but rather a relatively recent affectation. I suspect that research would show that "corking" is a pronounciation that has become fashionable only in the last generation because some think it makes them sound "salty," much in the same way that people who volunteer as docents at maritime museums all seem to be into singing sea chanteys. It's a short and insignificant jump from "cawlking" to "cawking." In a broad New England accent, "cawking" could easily be understood as and repeated as "corking" by somebody who thinks Maine is the only place traditional boats were ever built and is trying to sound "authentic." Considering the old time boat tradesmen I knew as a kid, my first hand sampling spans damn near a century. I'm on the West Coast, but a lot of those old timers were from all over the place, including Maine, and I never, ever, heard anybody seriously call it "corking" until maybe the last twenty years or so (the "second generation" of the"wooden boat revival."). It would be interesting to survey a bunch of pros who've been around since before the War to see whether they ever heard anybody call it "corking" back in the day.

[jonboy]

not that's it definitive as we are from all parts of the globe, but the two volume Oxford English Dictionary gives no pronunciation difference in the phonemic or phonetic spelling of cork and caulk not sure I can write it for want of symbols but something like this for both words ../kobackwards c)k/ and basicaly pronounced as in what you're trying to get out of the wine bottle..

[jonboy]

Don't know where that little purple thing came from...ignore it it should have been a :

[CapnJ2ds]

Tradition ............................ . And regional usage.

Caulking. Corking is summat narsty wot happens to wine if you don't use it in reasonable time. I don't take chances with that.

Tackle. Ground tackle, block and taykle, and leave yer dangly bits out of the conversation .