"English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> "Lori Pieper, the head translator for the Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York, _Englished_ this information from the German, so that Matsuyama could evaluate it and incorporate it into his article."


"Bishop Beaufort, you're a learned man. _English_ me this."
Anne Jackson Fremantle - 1948

In context, Ms. Jackson Fremantle's use means "explain [this to me]"
and not "translate this into English."

But, WTF?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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