[Ads-l] REMF antedating

[Jonathan Lighter]

Also "RAMF" ("rear-area....")

JL

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:44 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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> > 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_.
> >
> >
> > 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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