Ahoy!* The boats are back
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They may not be as reliable as the swallows of Capistrano or the buzzards of Hinckley, or even the Canada geese of Hoboken, but we're happy to see the boats have begun to return to our local marina.
*In English, "ahoy" is specifically a nautical greeting, while in Czech (spelled "ahoj") it's just one of many ways of saying "hello" (or "goodbye"). How did the sailors of Britannia (which once ruled the waves) end up using a word from a landlocked land to greet each other? Or did the word come from somewhere else? Alexander Graham Bell wanted "ahoy" to become the standard telephone greeting, but it didn't work out that way.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @8:26 PM