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    Re: Review of "Overboard" (history of Slocum)
    From: John Huth
    Date: 2010 Dec 30, 17:27 -0500
     Frank - 

    In the realm of navigational trivia, Wolff repeats the modern "folk etymology" which originated in the 1920s that suggests "dead reckoning" is derived from the phrase "deduced reckoning".

     

    Where did it come from?   I was under the impression that it was from the abbreviation d'ed reckoning.  But I'm willing to learn.

    Thanks!

    John H. 

     
       
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