Word: slangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador-suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute. His English was spattered with current U.S. slang. His diplomatic parties were lavishly spattered with champagne and caviar. But Washington never really unbent to him. The GPU story would not down. In 1941, he was called back to Moscow...
...loaded with German troops in U.S. uniforms and equipment complete to dog tags. German tanks and trucks were marked with American stars. The deception was highly successful and forced U.S. Military Police to make time-consuming checks of all vehicles using the roads in northern France and Belgium. American slang and American lore became the one sure test to pass...
...TIME (Nov. 13) I read with amusement an item signed Technical Sergeant John B. White, U.S.M.C., anent the use of slang in the armed forces in general and its use in the Marine Corps in particular. I take exception to his allegations that, for example, catsup is always called catsup...
...assume that Sergeant White has not been with us long, so I submit herewith for Ye Editor's perusal and White's edification a limited list of the more well-known slang terms in common...
From various stories and articles I have read, I get the impression that all men of the armed forces use an odd slang in which nothing is referred to by its right name. I can't speak for the Army, but so far as I have observed in the Marine Corps, a spade is a spade. Viz., potatoes are potatoes, bread is bread, catsup (when we have it) is catsup...