Brigs and Ships

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Ships and brigs are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ships" instead a noun "Brigs".

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Brigs and ships are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brigs" instead a noun "Ships".

Dear Gen'l: We have met the enemy and they are ours, two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop.

Source: Badass Boast / Real Life
Empire: Total War and Napoleon: Total War have many different classes of sailing ships, from tiny brigs to massive heavy 1st rates (over 50 cannons per side).

Source: Boring But Practical / Videogames
However Perry report actually said "We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." We can probably thank Pogo creator Walt Kelly for the misquote as he used it first as an attack against McCarthyism and later as an Earth Day slogan.

Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Politics

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