Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

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By His Excellency, Major General Viscount Walter of Bladensburg, Commander-in-Chief, British Armies in America

To <font color="yellow"><b>The Right Honble. The Earl of Yorktown</b></font id="yellow">, Major General of the First Regiment of Foot Guards

Reposing full confidence in your loyalty, courage and good conduct, I do hereby constitute and appoint you, during pleasure, to be <b><font color="yellow">Lieutenant General</font id="yellow"></b> of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, taking rank and precedence from the present day. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of lieutenant general by exercising and well disciplining the inferior officers and men of the said regiment, and I do hereby command them to obey you as their lieutentant general, and you are to observe and follow all such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from me or your superior officers, according to law.

Given under My Hand and Seal at New York this Fourteenth day of October 1776 and the Sixteenth year of His Majesty's Reign,

D.S. WALTER</font id="Trebuchet MS"></center>

Congratulations Phil... I mean Earl.

Thank you Lord Walter and General Davis. <u>That</u> Sirs was one looong road to promotion, made all the more gruelling by such skilled and honourable opponents as Gary "<i>The Fighting Parson</i>" McClellan, Philip "<i>Crepes</i>" Prete, Ed "<i>Big Chief</i>" Blackburn, David "<i>Cuban Cigar</i>" O'Connor, and many other fine gentleman of the CCC. Bartholemew gets a new ruby/diamond/saphire encrusted dining dish and I get the bill, (passed along to the Colonial tax payer of course). [:I]

The finest port all around for the next 24 hours. Last man standing is...one intoxicated bloke. [|)][:)]

For the benefit of all rebels and savages out there (the French can't speak proper English anyway [:0]) I should probably mention that it's considered awfully bad style to pronounce Phil's new rank "L<u>oo</u>tenant General". [}:)]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I should probably mention that it's considered awfully bad style to pronounce Phil's new rank "Lootenant General".<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Yes, awfully bad style indeed there![:p] But mystifying to me is where and when the British pronunciation of "<u>Luff</u>tenant" came into play. [?]

www.regiments.org has this explanation:

<font face="Georgia">Pronunciation: Throughout the Commonwealth the pronunciation is lef-tenant. Possible explanations include (a) an English interpretation of the French labial glide of lieu- as a prefix, (b) a mispronunciation of the typographical liev-, (c) a slur of the phrase "in lieu of". British pronunciation may also have been influenced by the notion that a lieutenant could not exercise power until his superior had "left" -- a confusion of the etymology with the verb "leave". The later pronunciation loo-tenant was known in England in the late 18th century, but was never predominant, and disappeared altogether in the 19th century. In the US, loo-tenant gained slow and intermittent acceptance, possibly influenced by Webster's language reforms. (Loo-tenant is a closer approximation of the original French.) An 1893 newspaper article mentions that it was confined almost exclusively to the retired list of the US Navy. Thirty years later it was fast becoming the prevalent form in America (H.L. Mencken, The American language, 1921; Richard Grant White, Every-day English, 1882).</font id="Georgia">

Congrats!

and as per your mystification:

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But mystifying to me is where and when the British pronunciation of "<u>Luff</u>tenant" came into play. [?]
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I have found the following:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant

<font color="blue"><font size="6"><font face="Arial Black">LIEUTENANT</font id="Arial Black"></font id="size6"></font id="blue"><font color="red"><i><font size="1"><font face="Arial">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. </font id="Arial"></font id="size1"></i></font id="red">

A Lieutenant is a military or paramilitary officer. The word lieutenant derives from French; the lieu meaning "place" as in a position or territory; and tenant meaning "holding" as in "holding a position". In French history, "lieutenant du roi" was a title borne by the officer sent with military powers to represent the king in certain provinces. It is in the sense of a deputy that it has entered into the names of more senior officers, Lieutenant General, Lieutenant Colonel, and Lieutenant Commander.

<i>Pronunciation </i>
The word is pronounced loo-tenant in American English and usually lef-tenant in British English although this is only correct with respect to the British Army. The Royal Navy pronounce the word as l'tenant which is a closer anglicised approximation of the original French. In Canada, lef-tenant is standard for all branches of the Armed Forces and for other usages such as lieutenant governor. The British pronunciation is prevalent during 14th and 15th centuries with the word being variously spelled as lieftenant, lyeftenant or luftenant It may have originated from a mistaken reading of the 'u' as a 'v'. Lev-tenant eventually becoming lef-tenant. It has also been speculated that it may have come from a fanciful etymology which associated it with the verb 'to leave', as the lieutenant only took up his duties once his superior officer had 'left'.

And while we're at it, I can't stop wondering why I should be a "major" general as if there were "minor" ones too. [:p]

Sir,

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by D.S. Walter</i>
<br />And while we're at it, I can't stop wondering why I should be a "major" general as if there were "minor" ones too. [:p]
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For some good reading on the subject check out this link:
http://www.chadduck.com/ymarines/trivia2/triv4-5m.htm

JUST CALL him <b><font color="red"><font size="6">SIR</b></font id="red"></font id="size6"> and be done with it!

A milestone has been reached, through dedication and perserverance, and an inherent desire to keep the down-trodden trodden down!

Congratulations, Yorky![;)]

Congrats Earl! Guess all those forfeited games are finally paying off. [:p][;)]

<center><font size="6">JUST A JOKE ABOUT A THREAD AT THE RHINE TAVERN EVERYONE!!!</center></font id="size6">

HAR DEE HAR HAR! [:D] I could have gotten my promotion earlier on the back of another abandoned game I was winning Al, (hmm, maybe a grand total of 6?) but I chose the high road and got over the top with a legitimate victory instead. So put that in your corn cob pipe and smoke it. [:p] Too bad my gentleman's ethics prevent me from affording <u>you</u> the opportunity of abandoning a game. [}:)] Thanks for the congrats. [;)]

And thanks Ernie! I've trodden down so many down trodden that I've worn out four pair of leopard skin thigh highs in the past two months. [8D]

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[:D]