User talk:MCV1105

Canadian jam knot
Hello MCV1105! I am curious about the alternate name "Canadian jam knot" for the Arbor knot. It appears one does find a number hits for this in searches, but I agree with User:Andrewman327 that a good reference would be very helpful. Do you have any sense (who/when/where) this name started being used?

It seems inevitable that knots acquire additional names over the years, despite the problems this can cause. The template at the top of each knotting article (called an infobox) has a field for alternate names ("names=") and citations can be used there as well. For an example of an article with lots of citations for alternate names, see Trucker's hitch.

Please let me know if you have any questions. --Dfred (talk) 04:58, 24 January 2013 (UTC)