[Ads-l] crafts

[Jonathan Lighter]

Earlier:

1966 John G. Fuller _Incident at Exeter_ (N.Y.: Putnam) 122: One of these
crafts came right down over my car.

(Quoting a UFO witness.)

JL

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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:
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>> > 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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