Is it 1900's or 1900s?

Pride goeth before a fall, Exapno. :smiley:

It’s fo’c’s’le, short for forecastle. (To be fair, this is probably the most obscure instance of Gaudere’s Law ever.)

Does anyone else remember the New Yorker cartoon in which a lowly sailor, writing a letter home, asks a companion, “How many apostrophes in fo’c’s’le?”