11-29-15, 11:22 AM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen
These things get shortened colloquially through laziness (especially by the British I expect) so in the Navy an "Ensine" soon would have become an "Ens'n". It's just the way our language develops, organically. Ensign Buses would not have been shortened at all because they were using the word in its intended form, to mean a flag or banner; a badge of office or excellence...
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Hey it's the best rum label in the world BBY! Purser(ship's officer) got shortened to Pusser's... As in Nelson's Blood!  <a tot with the queen mum! Splice the mainbrace er oh damn...in 1970, the Admiralty Board decreed that there was no place for the daily issue of rum in a modern navy, and so ended the daily issue of Pusser’s Rum in the Royal Navy on July31st,1970. This date since then, is referred to “Black Tot Day”. Alas the pusser is now a now called a Logistics Officer. 
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