[Magdalen] Calvary is the New Cavalry.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I have heard in the Army lots of references to various mounted infantry
units, generally called cavalry, and these are just as likely to be called
calvary as cavalry.

I've never heard the reverse, however.  That would make an easily
pronounced word harder to speak, but one never knows, does one?

We ought to have some sort of team on the job, finding jobs for those out
of work words like nuculus, which lack a true definition.  We can't say
they do not exist, because they obviously do exist.

Seems like a word that slips so easy off the tongue ought to have a good
respectable meaning.  Gome on folks!  Let's give "nuculus" a good
definition. Then maybe it will think about leaving poor ol' "nucleus" alone.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm thinking also of the confusion many otherwise educated folks have
> between nuclear and nucular.
>
> On Friday, March 13, 2015, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The LV and LR combinations are particularly difficult, and if you don't
> > learn them as a child they're extremely hard to learn as an adult.
> > Also LM (many people pronounce elm as ellum).
> >
> > Like the English TH for French speakers, the Spanish or
> > French R for English speakers, the English R for Japanese
> > speakers. Successfully learning these as an adult is a
> > real achievement.
> > -M
> >
> > By contrast, 20th and 21st century handwriting is awful, and since  the
> > > advent of the computer age, mostly dreadful.  These 19th century
> > > persons were literate in the basics.  I have to admire them, and I'll
> > bet,
> > > also, that they knew the difference between calvary and cavalry..
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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>
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