British Terms

From: RobCarpent(at)aol.com
Date: Wed Sep 24 1997 - 17:36:45 CDT

Fred Levit wrote:
I suspect that the word `Tommy' was used by the British as a handier thing
to say than `T.' 

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"Tommy" is also a term for a British soldier as in the Rudyard Kipling poem
"Tommy" which has the following lines:

So its "Tommy this" and "Tommy that" and "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But its "Special train for Mr. Atkins", when the guns begin to shoot.

Rob C

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