"brush fire" [was: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]]

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> partizan


So, *that's* the source of the Russian form - _partizan_ - of this word:

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