King's Lancer: was Re: Melees Report??
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Tue Nov 19 21:56:06 PST 1996
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 dentim at mail.myriad.net wrote:
> The King's Lancer is the winner of our first kingdom equestrian
> championship.
The word "lancer" (in the expected sense) has its first citation 1590,
so at least it's (barely) period.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have the reaction, upon seeing
"King's Lancer", of thinking of the King's Bengal Lancers, British
sahibs, Kipling, and all that sort of tommyrot?
--
Daniel de Lincoln
Tim McDaniel
Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com
tmcd at mcdaniel.dallas.tx.us is wrong tool. Never use this.
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