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Shanty, meaning a small temporary shelter, or shack is derived specifically from the French Canadian, chanty, describing a temporary work shelter located at a shipyard, and latterly in a logging camp.
Its nearest modern corrolary is, chantier, which refers to an extensive work site, such as for a skyscraper.
A sailor's song or sea shanty has no connection with the French Canadian chanty, and should be listed in the dictionary as a separate entry PMDisraeli 00:27, 28 November 2010 (UTC) PMDisraeliReply
- It is, that's what the headers ===Etymology 1=== and ===Etymology 2=== are doing. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
@Morgengave Do you know how this is pronounced in Belgium? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 15:26, 30 March 2019 (UTC)Reply
- @Lingo Bingo Dingo Most speakers would normalize the pronunciation to the Dutch spelling-pronunciation as this is what we generally do to English words with an -a- (e.g., tram, plan, flat, jam, caravan, dancing, parking, plastic, etc.). Morgengave (talk) 16:36, 30 March 2019 (UTC)Reply