The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-21
bLTTIEn[lD SLANG
D[Me DEVELOPED
BY WILLIAM PHILIP slMMs.

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United Press staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD. June i0-fBy MALL
americans think they are SONS
bears when 1t to singing
slang. but the British Tommy ism
so worse himself when he sets his
bean TO working along slangogical
lines.
What is patter than .Emma-Gee
for machine-gun. for instanteg On
o-Pip. for an observation post. One
must admit that there's some class
To these terms and while you've got
yonr goggles on this column Just
take il from me that there's more
pep of the same mastardy standard
where this came from.
A "whixz-hang is a she'll OF such
high velocity that its whixz and
bang are almost simultaneous. a
sdud' Is a shell which fails to ex-
plode. A bum handout is a ..duds
meal and a gink with a bone head rs
a s*dud. bo. The tip you got on
the filly that was backed off tho
boards by the other Tags on the back
stretch was a .-dud" and the piece Of
rope the candidate for reelection
handed o was a adud" smoke.
a French mortar is a sJoe-Emma'
and the big black ball of high ex-
pIosiye the Germans reply with is a
'tplum-pudding. An an~ti-aircraft
gun Is an Archibald" or an AR
chic while the German shell which
bursts With a fazzs yellow puff OF
smoke Is d woody bear"
To the English Tommy a German
is a Fritz and Fritz" he is to
the Canadians. The Scotch call him
an .Allyman" fprobahly after the
French .sAilemands but he is no
body to the Irish hut Jerry A
British staff officer is a sbrass-hat, =
perhaps because OF the gold braid
his cap. and Tomnlyss " head
gear. the steel helmet he must wear
the shell area, is a "tin-hat.
Another name given the staff Of
is the sIilies.' supposedly on
the theory that they toll not.
.Blighty is England. and going
TO Biighty," you can just bet your
specimen Of spondulix. is a Tit
tie bit all right" A ~"bIighty" Is a
small wound which invalids you
a serious wound is not a
.tbIighty" for the very simple rea-
soa that it puts a crimp in yoHr
travelling capacity and gives you bill
lets in a front sick-bay. II the wound
Is very bad. so bad that ~Rtimulants
are necessary before you are operat-
ed on. YOU will go to resurrection
"Ack-Emman is morning. pip
Emma" il afternoon. And night is
not infrequently called Saver
is one way to pronounce the
French word "soir." When q thing
is all gone its sna-poo"--anothe-
assault and battery, with mayhem,
the Francois.
a gronp Of mobile batteries. which
the razzle-dazzle on Fritz OF
Terry of Altman, first ut one part
the linz then AZ a1other is called
a travelling circus" A battle, q
raid. or any operation against The
enemy OF a similar nature. is a
show" A 'dud SHOW" mean the
stunt did not como off plain
English the attackers pulled a lemon.
When Tommy says Fritz GOT his
Vind up he mean he suffered an
OF trapped pedal extremities.
The guns of largest calibre are
"~Grandpas." The mex largest are
sGrapdmas." Or course. Daddy"
is next and Mother" next and
Uncle" Aunty" and the kids"
down the scale TO the Emma
Gee" The kids have all sorts OF
names: Willie. Harry, Sally. Polly.
Marie, Little Liz. and such. Just as
the ganners fancy happened to