RobCarpent(at)aol.com wrote:
>
> Fred Levit wrote:
> I suspect that the word `Tommy' was used by the British as a handier thing
> to say than `T.'
> ----
> "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
HEY watch the "Chuck him out" stuff you guys..
chuck
series ll
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