War Terms
So that a proliferation of threads on military jargon and journalists reportage doesn't drive out all the discussion of other topics, please file your discussion of terms about the war in this...
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We called a slick sleeve Private a "buck private" and a Sergeant with three stripes but no rocker (E-5) a "buck Sergeant" (the august rank which I achieved in my years in the Corps)I ask forbearance...
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Etymology ultimately unknown sez this discussion from last June.And then this discussion on the same topic just two months earlier! And no one cried mantle?
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Yes, "buck private" and "buck sergeant" are probably from the sense of a youthful spirited man. "Buck private" dates to 1874."Buck naked" is much later, about 1928. That one is a bit of mystery, some...
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I really must bestir myself and get round to subscribing to A Way With Words, I'm missing a lot of good stuff. As Dave's full time sales associate, let me point you to A Way With Words Newsletter.The...
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Two by osmosis? I don't get it.(your sales pitch screams out excellent evangelist. I'm in. Back issues, too.)But, what was Moses's last name?
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Malone, of course.btw, I'm not as smart as I thought I was. I readily accepted "Top of the Hour" in broadcast but only recently realized "Bottom of the Hour" referred to the minute hand clock...
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Jewish tradition has it as: BenAmram.Never heard of Tobias Moses, though. I am curious.
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OK, I'm in over my head on this one. But fools walk in where angels fear to tread.We were doing a Bible study on Exodus last Wednesday night and I came across this: Exodus 2:2. The commentary by Rabbi...
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mr: "So how do we distinguish the 'Sides of the Hour?' "The Romans gave no quarter. For them " 'Tis-Ides of March' that counted.
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This in my e-mail this morning.CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US> forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade> teacher Mohammed...
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So you thought that Iraq was just des(s)sert?Just wait until the Kurds get their whey!
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So you thought that Iraq was just des(s)ert?Just wait until the Kurds have their whey!
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I get it, first name as in prior name.When (unnamed child) is born (Ex 2:2), no name is recorded. Princess of Egypt gives him a name in Ex 2:10 "Moshe". The Jewish literary tradition called "Midrash"...
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From Sunday NY Times Safire column (in Magazine):''A person capitulating saves face, semantically if not in fact,'' says the lexicographer Frank Abate, ''without the negative overtones of surrender....
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This 'truce' vs. 'surrender' discussion prompts a thought about 'armistice.' Armistice is defined by the SOED as 'a temporary stopping of warfare by mutual agreement, as a truce preliminary to the...
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their newly-elected leadershipI think by the time we have a newly, duly, elected leadership, an armistice or other writing will have lost its point.
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Given the acreage of this thread, it's difficult to recall whether we've covered this (Well, why don't you check? Sheer indolence, ma'am.)Is the phrase a veteran of earlier conflicts, or new to this...
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I see that latterly the coalition air forces were replacing the explosive charges in some bombs with two huge chunks of concrete, to minimize collateral damage. In effect they were hurling large...
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