English, Scottish and Welsh are ethnic categories, they argue, for people from England, Scotland and Wales, all of whom can be called Britons because they are subjects of Great Britain, which unites those three cultures. That's what we call them, but is that what they call themselves? In the interests of allied solidarity, the question was put to Lexicographic Irregulars a month ago: Do people from Britain, which seems to have triumphed over Great Britain and the United Kingdom as the name for that country, consider Brit an ethnic slur?Ī significant percentage objected to the term in which the question was couched: both letters pointed out British has to do with citizenship, not cultural heritage. Tommy is still used, taken from the name "Tommy Atkins" used on government forms, much as we use "John Doe" and "Jane Doe" (did the other fella, Richard Roe, ever get married?) however, the term preferred is Brits. We do know what to call the forces from Her Majesty's Government. According to The Times of London in 1970, "Luckless victims of the American military machine are known as 'grunts,' a name said to be derived from their way of complaining as they trudge along the jungle trails.") ( Grunt, a verb from before the 12th century and a noun since the 1500's, is onomatopoeic. No sobriquet has emerged as yet to characterize the American forces in the Persian Gulf Vietnam-era grunts, however, is passe. Josie, acknowledging the presence of women as members of the armed forces.
Perhaps this decline occurred because the derivative term G.I. , popularized in World War II after the initials for "Government Issue," has fallen off. Joe is slogging through the desert sands with Tommy Atkins ? No use of the American term G.I. ONCE AGAIN, IN THE crunch, the Yanks find themselves side by side with the Brits.
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