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Learned how to spell gunwales there cheers. I've always said gunnals and would have spelled it phonetically. I like learning new random shit.
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Gunwales is how my phone autocorrects gumwalls, I always wondered what it meant.
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Wait, what? "Stuffed to the gunnels" which I've only ever heard, and "Full to the gunwales" which I've only ever read, are the same thing????
I'm not sure what I thought gunnels actually were. I had a vague feeling they might be a something 18th century gentlemen wore when they got stout in middle age, like a male version of stays
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brokenbetty
Windy out, eh.
Lovely chat with a guy on a mtb loaded to the gunwales with every type of bag I’ve ever seen! Could hardly see the ride for packing, frying pan, bottle of olive oil, everything; apparently he wild camps during the week while at work(!) Could well believe it, looked like he could commute to Algeria and back.
Good you meet you man :)