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  • From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: veterans
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:39:18 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, K. Jo Garner wrote:
->I thought the word 'veteran' was used to describe someone (ex-military)
->who had fought in a war, not been in a standing army at peacetime?


Right one quick trip to www.m-w.com would have cleared that up:

Main Entry: vet·er·an
Pronunciation: 've-t&-r&n, 've-tr&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin veteranus, from veteranus, adjective, old, of long
experience, from veter-, vetus old -- more at WETHER
Date: 1509
1 a : an old soldier of long service b : a former member of the armed
forces
2 : a person of long experience in some occupation or skill (as politics
or the arts)
- veteran adjective

I guess it's a more common association to think "veteran" and "war".

Cheers
KJ




  • veterans, Michael Tucker, 09/13/2001
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: veterans, K. Jo Garner, 09/13/2001
    • Re: veterans, K. Jo Garner, 09/13/2001
    • Re: veterans, Michael S Czeiszperger, 09/13/2001
    • Re: veterans, Joe Komenda, 09/13/2001

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