A coasting voyage in a small yacht from Hammersmith in the UK to Copenhagen and back, including various visits to places on the Baltic.
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Lynnet wrote: ↑August 24th, 2020, 9:16 am
I'll set this up for you, Jane.
Edit: all set. Let me know if you need anything else.
Lynnet I appear to have left an extraneous nonsense word in the summary 'boyage' - how can this be removed? I tried editing the first post, but instead it appears to have duplicated itself. Help...
Also, he calls himself E.F. Knight on the book - can I use that instead of the full name in the intro etc?
And what, if anything, do I enter in the Meta column of the MW?
Lynnet wrote: ↑August 24th, 2020, 9:16 am
I'll set this up for you, Jane.
Edit: all set. Let me know if you need anything else.
Lynnet I appear to have left an extraneous nonsense word in the summary 'boyage' - how can this be removed? I tried editing the first post, but instead it appears to have duplicated itself. Help...
Also, he calls himself E.F. Knight on the book - can I use that instead of the full name in the intro etc?
And what, if anything, do I enter in the Meta column of the MW?
I have deleted the extra posts of the first post
To edit the first post, look for the pencil icon (just above where the title is in bold, the left-most one on the right... possibly roughly central on the page). Once you’ve made changes, click on submit.
No need to worry about the metadata... that’s for when you have a collection with multiple authors, so each section can be linked to its author.
And yes, you can call him E.F.
Thanks very much.
That is how I edited the posts (pencil icon) but for some odd reason it duplicated rather than updated. I wonder if it was because I was doing it on the iPad vs PC... anyway, thanks for fixing and answering my questions.
Yes, he's quite an entertaining writer. Thanks for ignoring the error I made in the chapter in favour of the proper name for it. I've updated the MW accordingly (left out 'New' in the title).
Knowing how much English pronunciations amuse you, I shall advise you that with placenames ending in 'wich', the w is ignored and not pronounced. So Harwich is said something like "Harritch" https://forvo.com/word/harwich/
A town ending in "-wich" was a settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisan activity and trade. The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon suffix -wīc, meaning "a dwelling or fortified place".
PL OK. Thanks for a lovely reading.
I'm tempted to go back and make the fix to Harwich, but I'm too lazy. (I think the English will forgive me as they must be quite used to people botching up names.)
