antedating "calvary"

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 5, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> And there are a bunch of exx. of "calvaryman" too.
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> JL

…trusting that the original CalvaryMan rides with them.

LH
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Years ago I brought up the endemic Southern U.S. habit of saying "calvary"
>> for "cavalry."  The earliest printed ex. I had encountered was from 1918-19.
>>
>> Here are some big antedatings:
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>> 1836 _Metropolitan Magazine_ (July) 273: Don Julien had commanded a
>> calvary regiment.
>>
>> 1857 _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_  (Nov.) 605: One native irregular
>> calvary regiment.
>>
>> 1881  _Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York_
>> (Albany: Weed, Parsons) 399: This is particularly the case with the
>> Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry and *Calvary Troop* D.
>>
>> GB reveals a surprising number of exx. from just the past few years - from
>> publishers like Cornell U. P.
>>
>> JL
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
>> truth."
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