In <list-117193@2rosenthals.com>, on 05/19/06
at 11:19 AM, "Harry Travis" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> typed:
>Confusion begets confusion: You will find that both "jib" and "jibe" are
>verbs for "shift from one side of the ship to the other." Accepted by
>some lexicographers, anyway, but it would be interesting to be able to
>get an instant reading from all sailors.
To a sailor, a jib is a foresail.
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