"Soldier"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Soldiers," so far as I know, except in technical contexts.

JL

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 2/27/2009 05:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >   (I doubt that any American much cared whether they
> >called foreign marines "soldiers" or not.)
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> What did the American colonials call the English marines?  This may
> go back to before the Revolution, to the 1740 War of Jenkins' Ear,
> when Americans joined the British expedition in the Caribbean.
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> Joel
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