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Brian M. Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:47:23 +1300, benlizross
> <benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:459732CB.66DA@xxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:
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> > Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> [...]
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> >> 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?
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> > I certainly learned it in Vancouver in the 1950s, though
> > whether that's an appreciable time I can't say. It
> > referred specifically to German submarines of WWII. Of
> > course there was a lot more talk about the war then, and
> > lots more people around who had lived through it.
>
> > Come to look it up, it's right here in the Concise Oxford
> > Dictionary. Must be pretty well known.
(that was a joke, right?)
> It's also in M-W OnLine and AHD4.
Of course it's in the dictionaries, because the dictionaries expect
people to be reading newspapers from the 40s and history books.
My question was, "Did the term persist in English usage elsewhere for
any appreciable time after the cessation of hostilities?"
My _original_ question, however, which no German-speaker has addressed,
was whether "Boot" is the ordinary German word for 'boat'.
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