El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-08
''Cam1Out9age
Created By War
Is Used ByAU
British Essayist Tells Of
Many New Words Which
War Has Given Use.
by T.. Y. LUCAS.

London. Eng. June ST. have been
astonished recently by examples Of the
hold Of 'camounage" on all types Of
mind. Journeying the other day from
a Sussex station 20 London. under war
conditions-50 OF us standing all the
way in the guards van-I had some
talk with the guard, who. on removing
his cap 10 wipe a heated brow. re-
vealed himself as bald as the dome OF
St Pauls- IL caused him no distress
some men, he remarked. would camOu-
nage it with wig. but not he
Earlier in the day my host, a vigil
liant and suspicious reader Of the
press, had dismissed an optimistic
article on current events as mere
camouEage." The next day a school
boy back for the holidays two weeks
in advance Of the proper time said
that a scare OF measles had brought
about that desired result: at least,
that IS what the schOolmasJer said,
but personally he thought it was Just
camourage 10 cover the fact that
grub was getting so Jolly expensive
And little later facetious man near
me IN restaurant asked the wine
waiter TO bring him some claret in
stead Of the camoufaged water which
he called whisky Probably the word
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Barrnge Also Popular,
Another French word which also
gets its full native value I'm the Anglo
Saxon mouth is ~larrages" but bar
rage has no general usage. The word
raid" is as old as the Scottish border.
but viii never again be employed, I
imagine, except fin association with
attacks by air. At first We always
said "air raid but nov raid alone
is sufficient Should the enemy find
any other way Of hitting at the heart
OF us there viii be another word than
raid 10 describe his efforts. And 10
these I would add that early flower Of
Armageddon speech, moratorium, 20
which for a while most OF US took TO
be the name OF a new liner.
Getting the Wind u.
Perhaps the most notable slang
phrase that the war has produced is
Ito get the wind up" meaning 10 up
set or rattle OF put the fear Of God
into. But 7 speak only from the point
Of the housekeeping observer, aware
merely OF such expressions as get into
London psrlance. Soldiers on active
service no doubt could supply columns
Of new terms
Many who write TO me are con-
cerned with the origin OF ~blighty,'
the derivation Of that word having
been a national industry for about
three years now one man even goes
so far as 10 say that i asked for the
information; whereas no one has any
idea how careful I was 20 do nothing
Of the kind. having a head only too
fun OF devastating memories Of the
Hiuuustaui word, -Wilayati. or pa
lait." meaning foreign or English, and
its gradual transformation by Mr.. At
kins in India into the now familiar
and very ugly term for home.
"BliEhty's1 adventures are ancient
history, but 81 was new 20 me that, as
a reader kindly points out, -" padre in
its meaning OF clergyman, was carried
to India by the Portuguese and adopt
ed into Indian languages long before
the first English chaplain set foot in
India Like other Hindustani words
used in our army, such as ro0ty' for
bread and dixie for camp kettle, Il
was brought home by our soldiers
from India many years ago