[Ads-l] REMF antedating

[Mark Mandel]

The Globe quote shows a remarkable ignorance of what an acronym is.

MAM

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 5:44 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The OED (and Jesse Sheidlower's book _The F-Word_) have an entry for REMF
> with a first citation of 1/11/1971, in _Newsweek_.
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> 1970  St. Petersburg, FL _Tampa Bay Times_ 8 Feb 12/1
> "The 50,000 men who spent their year at Long Binh were known to the grunts
> as 'R.E.M.F.s' (rear-echelon mother--)."
>
> 1970 _Boston Globe_ 26 Apr 63/2
> "The grunts call them Rimfs, which stands for 'rear echelon mother -- .' "
>
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