battleship

[Jonathan Lighter]

And now they've switched to "warship."

JL

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Once again today CNN is referring to large warships (destroyers) as
> "battleships."
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:59 PM, William Palmer <palmerwil at gmail.com>
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> > True enough, but unrelated to the sea services. The RN equivalent of USS
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> > HMS, and no naval station is known as USS anything.
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> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
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> > > >It seems to me that the Royal Navy give names to their bases, too. As
> I
> > > >recall from way long ago, the RN base in Bahrain was known as "HMS
> (her
> > > >majesty's station, I think) Terror".  Enjoyed many a Double Diamond at
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> > > >Crypt Club there, in the company of our allies.
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> > > The US military does this as well. We have Camp Victory, Camp Striker,
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> > > Camp Slayer in Iraq.
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