[Ads-l] May be of interest, if it's new to anyone
Robin Hamilton
robin.hamilton3 at VIRGINMEDIA.COM
Tue Oct 11 10:32:14 UTC 2016
Not cited because single use?
If so, fair does.
Did the cheese-eating surrender monkeys really say "godons", not "god-drats"?
Let them eat boeuf.
Robin
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> On N11 October 2016 at 11:20 Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
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> Cited where appropriate in HDAS.
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> Not cited:
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> "GODDAM-GUY - An American."
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> "CARKSUCCER - An American soldier."
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> Cf. Fr. "Les godons," the English.
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> JL
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> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Interdatings, new meanings, etc.
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> > Digger Dialects: A Collection of Slang Phrases Used by the Australian
> > Soldie
> > rs ...
> > https://books.google.com/books?id=LhczAQAAMAAJ
> > Walter Hubert Downing - 1919 - Read
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> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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