Year: 1991 Language: English Author: Hard J. Genre: Dictionary Publisher: The Book Guild Ltd Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + OCR Pages count: 320 Description: Royal Navy Language is informative, enlightening and entertaining. It is the outcome of John Hard’s lifelong enthusiasm with seafaring and things naval - a compendium of over 3,000 terms and expressions found in the Royal Navy today. It is especially fascinating to discover the origin and meaning of so many colourful expressions and colloquialisms that over a period of time, have slipped ashore, enriching the domestic language. Many of the customs and traditions of the Service are described, thereby giving a clear insight into its social history. This is a compulsive read for all those interested in the sea and ships.
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Royal Navy language
Language: English
Author: Hard J.
Genre: Dictionary
Publisher: The Book Guild Ltd
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + OCR
Pages count: 320
Description: Royal Navy Language is informative, enlightening and entertaining. It is the outcome of John Hard’s lifelong enthusiasm with seafaring and things naval - a compendium of over 3,000 terms and expressions found in the Royal Navy today.
It is especially fascinating to discover the origin and meaning of so many colourful expressions and colloquialisms that over a period of time, have slipped ashore, enriching the domestic language. Many of the customs and traditions of the Service are described, thereby giving a clear insight into its social history. This is a compulsive read for all
those interested in the sea and ships.
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