By the society's standard scale (10 being the perfect rose), the Sterling Silver ranks a paltry 4.2, as a rose of questionable value.. And while Hollywood is showing the roses growing on Chelsea rooftops, the Sterling probably can't cut it in New York.
For an unknown reason the bag was also known as a âjewing bagâ and was hung from a hammock ring or perhaps a hook or peg next to his bunk in the forecastle. These bags generally were companions to the sailorâs sea bags or sea chests.
The term starts to appear at about the same time in descriptions of seafaring both in the US and the UK, implying an earlier common origin. My guess is that it was used by sailors for many decades before it reached print. Ditty bag remained a term exclusively of the sea until the twentieth century.Landlubbers took it up and used it for any small cloth container for items of kit or miscellaneous stuff. Itâs almost completely defunct in the UK but survives widely in north America in all sorts of situations.he English language is forever changing. New words appear; old ones fall out of use or alter their meanings. World Wide Words tries to record at least a part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, words in the news, and the curiosities of native English speech.