On 6/23/06, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
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> BTW in USMC boot-camp English, the humble first-person form is "this
> recruit", which requires third-person-singular agreement.
> Does anyone know whether this applies in the bootcamps of any other service
> or any other country?
In some of the officer training schools the phrase gets even longer:
"the officer-candidate" or some such.
> Does anyone know whether some such thing persists after bootcamp in any of
> these services?
Not in the US or Canada.
--larry