[Ads-l] Pills, excrescent <-s> in nicknames addendum (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> Extreme Unction


Pronounced "EKstri.MUNKshion," back in the day. Not only the pronunciation,
but also the name itself  - like that of the "Feast of the Circumcision" -
has fallen out of use.


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-Wilson
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