It consists of three sections: a) System Overview--. an overall perspective of the SDI training; b) Task Analysis--detailed train-. ing decision data for SDI technical tasks; and c) Training Requirements/. Recommendations--what should be trained, when training should occur, and where. training should be provided. Copies of this report are distributed to Air Staff sections, Major Com-. mands, and other interested training management personnel (see distribution on. page i).
Like the term dom used for Roman Catholic priests, the term don derives from the Latin dominus meaning lord and is a historical remnant of Oxford and Cambridge having started as ecclesiastical institutions in the Middle Ages. The term don meaning crime boss also derives from dominus.
Even in the acronym camp, though, some argue OK came from the shorthand for zero killed on battlefield reports. Oxford describes a potential link from OK to West Africa's Mandingo language as the only other theory with at least a degree of plausibility, but adds that historical evidence ...ut thanks to the late U.S. etymologist Allen Walker Read, we at least have a grasp on where it came from. After diligent research into OK's history, Read published his findings in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964, tracing the term back to a March 23, 1839, article in the Boston Morning Herald (see below).