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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
You have to have been a soldier to have come up with those!
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Now that I think of it ... here is another one:
Goon
shrapnel
Boycott
Shrapnel and Boycott (both named after Brittish officers) remind me to point you to a list of eponyms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_%28A-K%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_%28L-Z%29
The vast majority of those are less than 200 years old.
Yes, I was a soldier, once upon a time ;-)
Enlisted man. Non-voluntary enlisted man. [shudder]
But fubar and snafu weren't used in our army - nobody spoke English there ;-)