Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

Staving Mark J. Reed:
>On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:13:21AM +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> >  Of course, it's only the Army and the RAF who pronounce it as
> > [leften&nt]. The Royal Navy says [l=ten&nt].
>
>Really?  An initial [l=]?    That seems odd to me; I'd expect
>something more like [l@'ten@nt].
>
>But the different pronunciations of ranks aren't as annoying as
>having the same rank name associated with different grades.
>I understand the historical reasons why a navy captain is
>three grades higher than an army captain, but I think it's high
>time one or the other rank was renamed.  Or perhaps both, and
>"captain" could go back to referring only to whoever's in charge
>of a vessel under weigh.
Of course, in the RN, the word captain can mean either "commanding officer
of ship, regardless of actual rank" or "officer with rank equivalent to
colonel in army".

Pete