Son Of A Cavalryman
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Post by Son Of A Cavalryman on May 12, 2005 5:45:51 GMT -6
I hate people that pronounce cavalry "calvary" if you're one of them, stop doing it! Another pet peeve of mine is those of you that call the Medal of Honor the "Congressional" Medal of Honor. Wrong! No such award exits. The Medal of Honor is presented by the President in the NAME of congress.
SOACM
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Post by Tricia on May 13, 2005 20:35:46 GMT -6
I hate people that pronounce cavalry "calvary" if you're one of them, stop doing it! Another pet peeve of mine is those of you that call the Medal of Honor the "Congressional" Medal of Honor. Wrong! No such award exits. The Medal of Honor is presented by the President in the NAME of congress. SOACM And dagnammit--spell Weir correctly! That is W-E-I-R! As in W-E-I-R Peaks/W-E-I-R Point. I don't care if after a drunken spree he jumped in some river or ultimately died of the DTs in NYC ... just spell his name in the proper manner! ARRRGGGHHH!!! Uhh ... was Vic a boy or gurl? (actually, a friend of mine called it the 7th calvary) Regards, Leyton McLean |
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Son of A Cavalryman
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Post by Son of A Cavalryman on May 14, 2005 7:49:09 GMT -6
I've heard otherwise educated people pronounce it CALVARY. Egad. I visted a museum in Texas dedicated to the 6th (Terry's Rangers) Texas Cavalry. There, sure enough, written in bronze was 6th Texas CALVARY. I asked to see the curator and pointed the stupid error out to him. He said that in all the years the museum had been open no one had pointed it out and he himself had never noticed it. Good gosh!
SOACM
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Post by George Armstrong Custer on May 14, 2005 10:43:32 GMT -6
Jeez Rice, I'm surely glad that I got Weir right in the Wier thread  I guess its one of the exceptions that proves the rule of 'i before e except after c'! Another Custer solecism to look out for regularly appears on ebay. Key in 'Custer' to their search engine and nine times out of ten there will be at least one 'Diamond custer ring' in the listing. (For those not quick on the uptake, for custer read cluster Ciao, GAC |
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Post by Tricia on May 14, 2005 15:27:15 GMT -6
Good examples!
This is just a particular pet peeve--further vs. farther. "In order the further the advance of the Union cavalry, Custer pressed his brigade farther into the Shenandoah Valley."
Get it?
Regards,
Leyton McLean
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Post by Tricia on May 14, 2005 15:48:16 GMT -6
And one more!
"General Custard ...." Jeeze, are we playing Clue or what? I can't tell you how many times I've heard THAT.
Regards,
LMC
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Post by John Mackintosh on May 27, 2005 18:00:21 GMT -6
Remember the famous Sherman quote...
"Being a soldier entails dying in battle and having your name misspelled in the papers."
There were accounts after 6/25/76 that spelled it Custar. In fact, do an ebay search spelled that way and you can normally come up with something every now and then. Keeping waiting for that first edition MY LIFE ON THE PLAINS, sitting there undiscovered.
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Post by Tricia on May 28, 2005 14:55:46 GMT -6
John--
Another one--the name of Miles Keogh's horse. Comanche? Commanche? It's enough to drive one nuts. We do know how to spell it, right?
BTW--I enjoyed your article about Garlington in this year's "Greasy Grass!"
Regards,
Leyton McLean
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Post by John Mackintosh on May 28, 2005 16:56:24 GMT -6
Glad you liked it. It was written about two to three years ago, so it sort of "new" to me, seems so long since the research/writing.
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I guess its one of the exceptions that proves the rule of 'i before e except after c'!