On 02/07/2018 01:35, Ton wrote:
> A chimney and a smokestack is the same word in Dutch, schoorsteen, 

If you ask me that is just laziness. ;-)

> so why does English need two words for it?

Four words if you count the Yorkshire and Scottish word "lum" along with 
funnel.
I had a look and could not quickly find an answer. Mu guess is usage.
Smokestack tends to be used for industrial chimneys, chimney and lum 
more domestic and funnel for ships and steam trains.

> Besides, I'm not a naval engineer, what do I know? 
And you are writing in a foreign language.
I'm not either but I grew up in a shipbuilding area of Glasgow. So I 
heard these terms at my mother's knee. ;-)


> I just like these old Atlantic liners.

If you ever get the chance. You must visit the Riverside Museum. There 
are hundred of shipbuilder's models.

https://youtu.be/PJklMw9OXhk

> Here is an update. The fourth funnel still needs some work, but it is all coming
> along nicely.
> 

It is indeed.


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Regards
     Stephen

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