P, E, J, and I come from? Do they mean anything other than what they define? This is one of those questions one would hope someone else would ask. I know what they are and what they stand for, just don't know the etymology of the letters.
Where did the letters...
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The Random House dictionary of the English
language has a brief statement concerning the origin of these letters E and I came from the North Semitic and J from medieval Latin and P from North Semitic. All of them under went several changes through the Greek and Latin and early English. I didn't know this. I had to look it up.
language has a brief statement concerning the origin of these letters E and I came from the North Semitic and J from medieval Latin and P from North Semitic. All of them under went several changes through the Greek and Latin and early English. I didn't know this. I had to look it up.
I suspect !
my guess and its not educated, is that some where along the line, a designer or some rule had certain dimensions identified on a boat by letters and they eventually became the standards. sounds as plausible as any other goofy explanation. S/V Que Pasa?
my guess and its not educated, is that some where along the line, a designer or some rule had certain dimensions identified on a boat by letters and they eventually became the standards. sounds as plausible as any other goofy explanation. S/V Que Pasa?
I was just checking "The Sailmakers Apprentice"
and The author does not make any mention of these. I would put my money on the commitees that make the rules for measuring boats for racing handicaps. Sailmakers are interested in what size sail, not what size space.
and The author does not make any mention of these. I would put my money on the commitees that make the rules for measuring boats for racing handicaps. Sailmakers are interested in what size sail, not what size space.
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