Posted by gardenergirl on August 26, 2004, at 20:31:39
In reply to Re: How funny and a question » Miss Honeychurch, posted by JenStar on August 26, 2004, at 11:08:37
> the troop thing gets me too! The news people blithely talk about "X troops were killed" and everytime I think: Did the army TELL them that soldiers are now "troops" or did they develop that fun little verbal gem all on the own? Where did this start?
>Perhaps it's a cost-cutting measure. Happens all the time in the corporate world. People now have to do the job of two or more. So now a soldier has to do the job of a troop?
;)
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