Word: quebecers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language all sounds like Greek. Mainly, it is a hyperabbreviated shorthand of letters and numerals identifying sender and receiver and passing on data about wind conditions, altitudes and airport geography. Herewith a typical conversation, in English and French, as it might be overheard by an Air Canada pilot over Quebec City...
...Pilot: Quebec ground, this is Foxtrot Juliet Victor Hotel, radio check. One two decimal nine...
Ground Control: JVH, Quebec ground, radio check...
...Pilot: Quebec ground, JVH at hangar number three. Request taxi clearance. Over...
Even before the Quebec expedition, the small pox proved to be a menace. Boston had so many cases that the disease helped deter General George Washington from trying to fight his way into the city last spring. Said he: "If we escape the small pox in this camp and the country around about, it will be miraculous." Only after General Howe evacuated the city did Washington send in 500 of his men who had already had the disease...