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[Jonathan Lighter]

As a bonus O.M.G., the author erroneously writes "military" when he ought
to write "civilian."

JL

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> O.M.G.
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:52 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > An antedating of this plural form in a serious book?
> >
> > 1990 James Robert Parish _The Great Combat Pictures_ (Metuchen N.J.:
> > Scarecrow Press) 140: Some 338,000 military personnel were removed from
> the
> > beaches of Dunkirk, France, using 1,200 military and naval crafts.
> >
> > JL
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