army ranks [was: assorted comments]

[sagehen]

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>Speaking of dialects, as we sometimes do, here ;-), when I was a child in
>Texas, I thought that this was the "Silver War," since "silver" and "civil"
>fall together in the local version of BE as something like [si at v@], when the
>next word doesn't begin with a vowel. I knew what "silver" was, but I didn't
>learn "civil" until after I started school.
>
>-Wilson
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This reminds me of the "Calvary"/"cavalry"  interchange we hear so often
from whites in all parts of the country.  Does this  also exist in BE?
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