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Aha! So I guessed right on two points:
1) There's more to it that the American Heritage Dictionary's story; and
2) tsuwm can be relied upon to have the whole story for us.
Thanks, tsuwm.
BTW, is there a term for this kind of a situation, where two variants of a single word are competing within the language?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted colonel Anonymous 09/17/01 09:37 PM Re: colonel wwh 09/17/01 10:13 PM Re: colonel Bingley 09/18/01 04:33 AM Re: coronel Faldage 09/18/01 11:44 AM Re: coronel Jackie 09/18/01 04:29 PM Re: coronel Hyla 09/18/01 04:37 PM Re: Kaintuck coronel Faldage 09/18/01 04:46 PM Re: coronel Jackie 09/18/01 04:48 PM Re: coronel Hyla 09/18/01 05:01 PM Re: coronel Jackie 09/18/01 05:38 PM Re: coronel tsuwm 09/18/01 10:31 PM Re: coLonel, not coRonel Keiva 09/18/01 11:16 PM Re: coLonel, not coRonel tsuwm 09/18/01 11:21 PM Re: coLonel, not coRonel Keiva 09/18/01 11:32 PM Re: coLonel, not coRonel tsuwm 09/19/01 02:55 AM Re:coLonel, not coRonel Keiva 09/19/01 05:41 PM Re:coLonel, not coRonel of troy 09/19/01 06:35 PM Re: coronel doc_comfort 09/24/01 04:26 AM Re: colonel stales 09/19/01 04:43 AM Re: colonel Jackie 09/19/01 12:25 PM Re: colonel Capital Kiwi 09/22/01 05:39 AM Re: military rankings - here and there? wow 09/22/01 05:01 PM commodore TEd Remington 09/23/01 12:40 AM Re: commodore Keiva 09/23/01 12:52 AM Max Quordlepleen 09/23/01 03:22 AM Re: Existentialist commodores Keiva 09/23/01 11:37 AM Re: commodore - update wow 09/23/01 03:43 PM Re: commodore jmh 09/26/01 09:55 PM Re: commodore: from the old salt's junk drawer Faldage 09/27/01 03:37 PM Re: colonel Faldage 09/27/01 03:25 PM Re: colonel tsuwm 09/27/01 04:19 PM Re: colonel Anonymous 09/27/01 07:07 PM Re: anal retentive tsuwm 09/27/01 07:21 PM Re: yeahbutİ.... Anonymous 09/27/01 07:53 PM Re: Nits Faldage 09/27/01 08:05 PM Re: anal retentive Keiva 09/27/01 07:58 PM Re: colonel Keiva 09/27/01 07:45 PM Re: colonel of troy 09/27/01 07:52 PM
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