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You’re welcome Rosalind.
It’s rather dry text, but the nautical dictionary can be found here...
https://archive.org/stream/ldpd_7518586_000/ldpd_7518586_000_djvu.txt

Rosalind

That's clever. Loved it!

A couple of irritants.

I often hear mitigate [I]against[/I]... e.g 'These measures mitigate against the effective treatment of patients...'

Shouldn't it be 'militate against'?

Mitigate means to soften or to lessen the effect of. So we of course have mitigating circumstances and 'This pill mitigates the pain'.

Has anyone been thus irritated?

Also I have an irrational objection to vaccine pronounced as vakSEEN with the second syllable stressed. I accept that the word can legitimately rhyme with plasticine or Yeltsin but I just want the stress on the first syllable.

Hi Paul

I agree that putting stress on the second syllable is irritating - Boris is a culPRIT !

It also seems that any noun can be used as a verb nowadays - I heard someone on Radio 4 this morning wanting to caveat something.

tyke51
Surely you have the wrong vowel in your Boris example?

Chrise

Ha Ha!

I`m also reminded of a certain town in North Lincolnshire!

I believe that inhabitants had to mutate their town's name in order to pots on some websites....

btw Phil the Greek is dead at age 99 - does the BBC need to show the same tribute programmes on both BBC1 and BBC2 simultaneoulsy? I'm missing my cooking programmes.

malone

I enjoyed your cryptic hints on another thread. I thought you might struggle on a sporty one,

Paul

I have heard a lot of your vakSEEN as in "I was vakSEENed yesterday". Very annoying in several ways.

Grunger,

Thanks, I can cope with a very basic level of sporty stuff - and I know my limitations!