Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-22
MUCH new SLANG.
INVENTED BY MEN
On WESTERN FRONT.

THE FIELD, June 22.-Americans
think they are some bears when il
comes to singing slang, but the Brit
ish Tommy isn't so worse himself when
he sets his bean to working along
slangological lines.
What is patter than "Emma-Gee" 70.
machine-gun, for instance? Or 90
Pip" for an observation post? One
must admit that there's some class to
these terms and while you've got your
gogglers on this column just take it
from me that there's more pep of the
same mustardy standard where this
came from.
A withholding" is a shell of such
high velocity that its whizz and its
bang are almost simultaneous. A "dud"
is shell which fails to explode. \
bum handout is a "dud" meal and a
gink with bone head is "dud" DO.
The trip you got on the FLY that was
backed off the boards by the other nags
on the back stretch, was "dud" and
the piece of rope the candidate for re-
election handed you was "dud'
smoke.
A trench-mortar is "Joe-Emma" and
the big black ball of high explosive
the Germans reply with is plum
pudding An anti-aircraft gun is an
Archibald" or an Archie while the
German shell which bursts with fuz-
zy yellow puff of smoke is a woody
bear"
To the English Tommy German is
a Fritz and Fritz" he is to the Can
adams. The Scotch call him an Ally
man. Orobably after the French
"Allemand'), but he is nobody to the
Irish but Jerry" A British staff
officer is a "brass-hat" jerhaps be.
cause of the gold braid on his cap, AMI
Tommy's own headgear, the steel he'll
met he must wear inside the shell area
is Tin hat"
Another name given the staff officer 5
is the lilies" supposedly on the theory
that they toll not.
"Blighty" is England, and going t.
Blighty,' you can just bet your last
specimen of spondulix, is a little bit
of all right" A "Blighty" is small
wound which invalids you home. 4
serious wound is not "blighty" for
the very simple reason that it puts 3
crimp in your travelling capacity ant
gives you billets in a front sick-bay
If the wound is very bad, so bad thai
stimulants are necessary before vol
are operated, you will go to "Resurrec-
ton Ward"
"Ack- Emma" is morning. pep
Emma" is afternoon. And night is no.
infrequently called Saver" which is
enc way to pronounce the French
word "soir." When a thing is all gon;
it's na-poo"-another assault and
battery. with mayhem, on the Francois
A group of mobile batteries, whicl
turn the razzle-dazzle on Fritz or Jerr!
or Allyman, first at one part of tn.
line then at another is called "trav-
cling circus.' A battle, raid, or any
operation against the enemy of a sim
liar nature, is show" A "dud show
means that the stunt did not ''come
offf"-in plain English the attackers
pulled lemon.
When Tommy says Fritz got his
wind up" he means he suffered an at
tack of trapped pedal extremities.
The guns of largest calibre are
.Grandpas." The next largest are
Grandmas." OF course Daddy" is
next and Mother" next and Uncle.
"Aunty" and the kids follow down
the scale plum to "Emma-Gee." The
kids have all sorts of names: Willie
Harry, Sally, Polly, Maize, Little Liz
and such, just as the gunners fancy
baOnanad IN STRIKE