[78-L] ^The end of a format "era"

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Sat Aug 27 23:19:33 PDT 2011


On 8/28/2011 12:09 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> Lieutenant is a word used frequently in police drama shows. Probably
> many military shows or movies also.
>
> joe salerno

Joe - I think Julian is referring to the preferred British pronunciation 
of the word as leftenant

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

>
> On 8/27/2011 1:31 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> These are words that I'm unlikely to ever use. Another word that should
>> be removed is "lieutenant". I've never used it in casual conversation,
>> except to debate its pronunciation.
>>
>>         Julian Vein

>> I regularly suggest that if anyone will show me the "f", I'll pronounce it.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>
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