"The Battle of Bataan" heard as

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ba-TAN.

But Ba-TAHN has been gaining for quite a while.

JL

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:

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> Wilson Gray wrote:
> > "the Battle of buh-TAHN"
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> > IIRC, it used to be "the Battle of buh-TAN"
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> > but I may be wrong, since even I was but a tad, in those days.
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> > Bueller? Anyone?
> "We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan,
> No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam,
> No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
> No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces,
> And nobody gives a damn!"
>    -- Frank Hewlett
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> I'd say that your memory is probably correct.
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> Jim Parish
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