In doug's Two Person Primary Survival Kit He says:
"1.2 Qt./ 1.25-liter Wide Mouth Rectangular Loop-top Lexan Nalgene Bottle filled w/ purified water then boiled and sealed*"
How do you seel water in a bottle? Is the bottle valcume packed or is it just tighted?

And how do you spell sealed? Is it sealed or seeled? Thanks

Pete,

I am going to let Doug completely clarify the water advice, but I spell it sealed, most of the time <img src="images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />. I got a D in spelling though.

My intrepretation of the water advice is this. Fill the Nalgene Lexan bottle with prepurified water, leaving the lid slightly loose, place it in a large pot of water and boil it for a certain amount of time, remove the Nalgene bottle and tighten the lid.

This is how my Mother canned foods. My guess is the Lexan bottle is required to take the resultant vacuum created by sealing (or seeling <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />) the hot bottle of water.

This is my method, also learned from family canning ( fruit not my little brother <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> ) As for spelling? Daniel Webster took a language with an amusing set of 'rules' and further colored ( coloured) the situation. My Anglican schoolmistress merely insisted we learn both spellings. This actually increased my talents, much like ambidextrous and multi lingual children. I now mutilate words in two systems. <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

"In those older Scottish writings, golf is variously spelled gouff, goiff, goffe, goff, gowff, and golph. Our modern determination to have only one correct spelling for each word would have struck our ancestors as hilariously pedantic and priggish."

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/golf.htm, debunking the Internet myth that "golf" is an acronym.

SEALED is the correct English. (And I don't give a damn about whether that's priggish or not). By the way hasn't anyone told the MIcrosoft Corporation that there's no such thing as English (US). If our cousins over the pond insist on using the mother-tongue, the least they can do is not debase it (nah, nah, nah, nah, nah !!!!!!)

This from people who can't even get the number of syllables right in "aluminum"? <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

If this thread becomes heated I will secure it with a spanner, hook up a float to my lorrie and go on holiday with my steed,or is it stead? <img src="images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

No problem. The honourable Mr. Hero is just favouring us with a little local colour.

Besides, I have it on excellent authority that the word is actually spelled "ceiling". <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Here is how I would go aboout ceiling yyooup some water...

Add a goodly amount of water to an aluminium kettle obtained from a jumble sale, set it on the Aga and bring it right to a boil.

Take your Lexan bottle, top off with a couple of halfpints of pure Devonshire water, twist up the stopper until nearly done up like a kipper, and immerse in the boilling water.

Boil the dickens out of it for a game or two of Snakes and Ladders. Let it boil, don't be a nosey-parker. Then remove the bottle with a pair of long-handled Mole-grips. Don't be a gormless git and splash the water aboout on your trousers. Do up the stopper right tight, let cool, and Bob's your Uncle, your water is nought manky!

Well, I personally prefer the English (SA) spelling for microsoft office...