The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-14
TO PRESERVE
 SLANG OF TOMMY
Dictionary Being Compiled, Dealing With Words and Phrases of the World War, To Be Placed in British Museum.

London, Nov. 14-An effort is to be made to preserve in the British Museum the wartime slang of the British Tommy. For the benefit of the students of the great war a dictionary is in the course of compilation dealing with the many words and phrases born of the war.
 The Secretary of the Imperial War Museum has issued a request for notes on the subject giving the slang terms used in the British army, to- gether with the meaning of the words and,l if possible, their derivation.
 Much of this slang was a legacy of the old regular soldier at Mons and originated for the most part in the East. The most popular and the most romantic and sentimental slang term of the lot undoubtedly was "bhghty." That is now almost universally used. It is derived from the Eindustanf and means home.
 However, the history of such ex- pressions as kip ''posh,'' "wangle," "eyewash," "swank," square push ing' or ''wind-up' is not yet written, carefully collecting his data In his re- quest for data the secretary very naively suggests that. of course. many of the army terms are not polite and hardly fit for publication.
 As a rule, however, the slang of the British Tommy has a much more wholesome derivation than most of the French ''argot les tranches.''
 One Trench Language.
 Perhaps the most astounding thing about the army slang of the British is the generality of it's use. Those knowing Great Britain know that the dialect of no two counties is alike. The accent of the Lancashireman is as2if -ferent .,as possible from that of his neighbor, the Yorkshireman, while the troops from Northumberland were completely and wond erfu1Iy unintelIi- gible to the rest of the British army Many of the Welsh regiments, too,
 
 their native Welsh Yet the language of the trench was the same for all.
 To all '-brass hat was a staff field officer. True the Scotsman put two extra ''rs'' into it, and the North umbrian, as he is wont, "gutturalled'' the s.r'' and made it apear nke-wen certainly nothing which could be printed.
 Some of the examples are as fol- lows:-
 Air-flappers-arm signallers.
 Archie an anti-aircraft gun (Prob-ably a corruption of air-craft.)
 BulIy-bully-bee timed corned beef. GA relic of South Africa-)
 Buchshee- which is to spare or can be borrowed (Derived from the Arabian beggars' term, backsheesh.)
 Bhghty - home. England. tHin- dustani.)
 Bynt-a WOHlStll" N%Al eitJAS-J Cushy-soft Derived from cu- shion. cushy wound is a slight wound. A cushy job is a task which can be performed sitting down. Some Hindu, Too. Dekko-to look. (Hindustani) a wash-over-el elaboration, gener- | ally in some scheme to hoodwink a | general
 Emma. Gees-the signalling term | for the initials ''NI. G.,,, i. e., machine | gunner. Jerry-a German soldier. | Kip-to sleep; a bed. Lancejack-a lance corporal: I,eaf-leave of absence. (Corrup- | ton of leave.)
 | Monjy-bread, or something to eat. | (Corruption of the French.) | Posh-ultra smart | Padre-an army chaplain. | Quarter bloke-the quartermaster. Red Cap-an army policeman who | wears a red cap
 1 Scupper-to wipe out completely Square pushing-to walk out with a l sweetheart in a soldiers best uniform l Sapper-an engineer. | Swanking-four-fiu flushing.