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CPT Battalion S 1 Oic
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That was an interesting post, brother. And yes, we are divided from the British in the use of our common language, for sure. I remember in 2004 when we hung out for a week with the British Royal Marine Band at the military tattoo in Norfolk. The slang words they used were bizarre to us, and their pronunciation of well-known words as well. When I tried talking to them about the Canterbury Tales, some of them spent about 5 minutes trying to get me to pronounce Canterbury the way they did (when I first said it, they didn't even know what I meant). I remember one guy from a northern region of England, maybe Northumberland but I can't remember for sure, who spoke so quickly and with such an accent that I never understood what he was trying to tell me, not once. No matter how many times I asked him to repeat it.
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LTC Glenna Wheatley
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I just posted this as well after following a link in another article. Yours looks prettier than mine, though. I need to learn how to link properly.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Thank you for the word share.
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