til the english term 'scuttlebutt' (as in: 'So, what's the scuttlebutt today?') originated from the Age of Sail. it has literally the same expressive meaning as water-cooler gossip.
thank you Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections: Stowaway!
compare this to the wikipedia entry for scuttlebutt - a dry factual kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt
#multimedia #cdrom #edutainment
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