Re: [tied] Re: -s -> -i

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From: guto rhys

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Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:45 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: -s -> -i

> ... One related example, possibly anecdotal (I am aware that these fields provide ample space for anecdotes), is of a German (pro-allies) spy being parachuted into France and ordering a café au lait and being identified as a spy consequently - rationed milk not being used in coffee - only dried milk or something similar. Cultural rather than linguistic. This story is only vaguely remembered.

Another anecdote I recall (also vaguely) was about a group of specially trained German soldiers in American uniforms who drove in a jeep behind the Allied lines, pulled into a military fuel station and were gunned down as soon as they asked for "petrol".

Piotr