Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

Staving Tristan McLeay:
>On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, 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? Why does the RAF pronounce it differently from the RN? Didn't the
>RAF come from the Navy?
>
 From the Royal Flying Corps, I believe. I think that they were originally
part of the Army during the WW1. However, the names of ranks are
distinguished from both army and navy ranks.

Pete