Blower Eggs, Friend Pain and Other Weird Sailor Names from the 18th Century

Writer and historian Emily Brand was researching 18th century naval records when she came across some really weird sailor names.


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Indeed! Much, much better than my chicken scratch ... I think school nowadays don't even bother with penmanship: my kids all write in block letters (and they type out all of their book reports, etc - so no penmanship required!)
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