(urth) Short Story 44: Continuing Westward
Marc Aramini
marcaramini at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 4 16:19:45 PDT 2012
but we do know the lewis mounted gun is from the royal air force biplane, though I vaguely suppose they enlisted Americans, too, during the war. I am leaning toward British.
--- On Tue, 9/4/12, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
By the way, the narrator uses the originally American word "dohicky" as well as the British "thingummy". In that case I suppose we can't be sure whether the girl's vest means the British sense (a sleeveless undershirt) or the American sense.
Jerry Friedman
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