SOLDIERS WILL MEET
WITH MARY LANGUAGES
Undoubtedly one of the first things
tin- American soldiers will learn when
they gel into the trenches will be the
goodly assortment of nicknames and
slang phrases to which the war has
given birth. English, French, Italians,
Canadians, Australians, New Zealands
and last but not least, the Hindus,
have contributed to the immense vo
cabulary of army slang with which
every soldier at the front is familiar,
Cased on past performances, as the
dope sheets say, the Americans may
be expected to add another entfire
^ volume to the vocabulary, for in no
other country of the world do so many
expressive slang words and phrases
originate as In the United States.
The American soldier wont’ be
many hours at the front before he
will bear the quartermaster referred
to as “soldier-bloke,” and he will
quickly got to know that "gunfire" is
not gunfire at all, but the early morn
ing ill-ink of ten or coffee which lie will
get if he is lucky.
At the base lie will hear of people
who have the “w*ind up” or whose are
"windy" which is equivalent to the
American term of having “cold feet."
lie will hear tile enemy referred to as
"Fritz,” “Alleymen,” "Hoehe” and sev
eral other designations that would
senrqply look well in print.
Very often lie will hear the word
"scrounger," a term applied to any
man who for some reason of other is
dodging the lighting and the hard
work. He will also hear him spoken
of as a man who is "dodging the col
umn,” and often as one who is
"swinging the lead.” A “Jead-swlng
er" is tie who is shamming sickness
in order to "dodge the column," but
army doctors are not easily deceived,
and there are few "lead-swingers”
nowadays.
Leaving the base for the trenches
is termed "going up the line," which
will not sound unfamiliar to the
American ear. The soldier from the
states also will readily become ac
customed to “Jack Johnsons,” “whizz
bangs” and “coal boxes," and not
content with calling his hole in the
ground a dugout, he will learn to call
it a "tamboo" and many other names
Often he will hear of a man who
has got a "cushy” job—that is, a soft
job. "Cushy" trenches are trenches
where there are plenty of comfort
able dugouts and not much shelling.
Then “it's a gaff,” or “it's a doodle;”
in plain Knglish, 'it’s simple, it’s easy.
For all articles of diet the soldier
in the trenches has his own name,
generally one of Hlndustania origin.
Tea is “char,” bread is “rooty,” whilst
butter is "muckin,” and very often
“Mnggine Ann,” “Tossy” denotes jam
and an onion a “pledge,” all of which
are words brought from India, if a
soldier wants plenty of gravy with ills
GERMANY WILL HAVE
ALUMINUM COINS
The (him,in copper coins have in
most completely disappeared from ••lr
culat'inii Sonic timo ago It was de
cided to replace them with irou coins.
Several mililions iron one, two tnl
live pfennig pieces were coined, hut
Hit) experiment did not prove suc
cessful, because the irou "pennies"
were too heavy.
The federal treasury recently an
nounce that a large number uf alu
minium coins will lie 'issued The
new pieces Which will shortly l»a put
into circulation are n little sni'.'ler
^ t tin n tin' old coppers and, if course, j
"much lighter. Six hundred of them
’only weigh an American pound.
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GOETHALS URGES
AERONAUTICAL
BOARD
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, June HO,—Speaking
before the senate military committee
today General Goethals backed up the
recent statement of Admiral Perry
and others that ttic (Inal decision of
the war largely hinged upon the pre
ponderance of aerial forces and guns
on one side or the other.
General Goethals told the committee
that air craft and artillery will be
the deciding factor in the great strug
gle and delivered a strong urge that
the attention of the military commit
tee tie devoted primarily toward the
perfection of those branches of mili
tary equipment.
Goethals also recommended the
creation of a central authority to take
full charge of aeronautics.
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dinner, lie asks for more "grippo,"
and for cheese he asks for "bungy,”
| while all puddings are classed as
"duff.”
There are scores of Hindu words
which the soldier has appropriated
for himself, such as "atch-a,” all
right; "dhobie,” washerwoman,
"dhersey,’ a tailor; “kn aphi," the
barber; "garrywaller,” generally a
transport driver, and many others.
The war in the air has likewise
I evolved a new language of its own.
I Hundreds of quaint and peculiar
s’ords are In use among the airmeA,
and the list is being added to daily.
No airman ever thinks of talking
about a fl'ight for example. "Flip” is
the word he uses. For an allied air
man to attack a German Zepp is to
"spiko’boozle” him. "Huffed,” mean
ing got killed, is another character
istic airman's word. Of the same
meaning is the phrase, “He hasn’t
come back for his cap.”
Another common expression among
the airmen is "hockboo,” which means
a good many tilings, but chiefly that
enemy a'ircraft is about If Zeppelins
or Taubes nro on their way a "hock
boo” is “on." Anything in fact that is
calculated to give the timid "cold feet”
is a "hockboo.’ The word is really
a distortion of an Indian word mean
ing eagle.—Ex.
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