brigadier

[Mark Mandel]

Oh, I'm not saying it's correct. But I suspect this reasoning, and possibly
this analogy, as the source.

m a m

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> It's certainly a parallel construction, but it's much more of an error as a
> "brigadier" is the *commander* of a brigade, especially in the British army.
> The Light Brigade had one brigadier, not 607: Major General the 7th Earl of
> Cardigan.
>
>
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> Of Mark Mandel
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> Parallel to "trooper" 'member of a troop'?
>
> m a m
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > "Member of a brigade":
> >
> >  _2003_ Mark Bergin *Warfare in the 16th-19th Centuries*  (Brighton:
> > Salariya) 35: Out of the 607 brigadiers who rode out in the Charge of the
> > Light Brigade, only 198 returned.
> >
> > It's for kids but so what.
> > JL
> >
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