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Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Horace LaBadie wrote:
> > In article <1167450300.464167.286720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> In Chicago, the term "U-boat" is known, because the U-505 has been on
> display at the Museum of Science and Industry for 50 years or so. Did
> the term persist in English usage elsewhere for any appreciable time
> after the cessation of hostilities?
In India, but not as a generic term for a submarine; only for the
U-boats of the kind that once prowled the Indian Ocean both to the east
and west of India. "Flying boat" was used as a generic term for a
seaplane (i.e., even one that didn't land on its fuselage).
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