army ranks [was: assorted comments]

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Apr 10 14:08:42 UTC 2006


At 12:21 PM -0600 3/30/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
>   The
>neighborhood where
>they and a couple of others bivouacked (?? -- a neat word with all five
>vowels)

ah, but not all five in alphabetical order, along with the "sometimes
y", as in "abstemiously" or "facetiously"

LH

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