"rally"; "restore honor"

[Bill Palmer]

"Half-mast" is the correct usage in naval terminology.

"Half staff" is strictly for landlubbers.

Bill P
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From: "Charles C Doyle" <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: "rally"; "restore honor"


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> And how about "half-mast" vs. "half-staff"?
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> --Charlie
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> From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Jim
> Parish [jparish at SIUE.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:41 AM
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> Charles C Doyle wrote:
>> At some point in my youth, I was carefully schooled regarding the
>> distinction between
>> "in memory of" and "in honor of."  It's simple (in a prescriptive way, at
>> least):  dead vs.
>> alive.
>
> Meanwhile, here in Illinois, we have been getting a stream of
> gubernatorial proclamations
> calling for the flag to be flown at half-mast "on behalf of" one or
> another soldier, police
> officer, or fire fighter. It's been going on under two different
> governors - Blagojevich and
> Quinn - so it isn't (as I initially surmised) just a Blago-ian
> idiosyncracy.
>
> Jim Parish
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