tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post9089560887719208265..comments2024-03-28T09:39:05.467-07:00Comments on Roads to the Great War: Still With Us: Eleven Words and Expressions Popularized During the Great War snielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631473280484584330noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-88561248338143471842021-10-09T14:23:54.236-07:002021-10-09T14:23:54.236-07:00Hello everyone, I'm enjoying the content here,...Hello everyone, I'm enjoying the content here, and I'd like to add some more information about the expression "the balloon's gone up!" <br /><br />In Britain, at least, the expression always means that a particularly risky activity has foundered or come to grief. <br /><br />Example: "Why are they loading nukes onto our bombers?" demanded the station XO. "Peter van der Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10386380609352393368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-58913670904143195282021-10-04T16:07:07.089-07:002021-10-04T16:07:07.089-07:00Thanks for the corrections. Proof reading is the ...Thanks for the corrections. Proof reading is the hardest part of publishing this stuff.Mike Hanlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02582949131010625505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2769870738847154628.post-51788375238524016442021-10-04T13:26:16.475-07:002021-10-04T13:26:16.475-07:00I could not find a way to add "editorial sugg...I could not find a way to add "editorial suggestions" to the October Trip Wire. So, I will make them here. <br />On the Georges Guynemer Memorial: "...he managed to glide into Immortality." (rather than "immorality").<br /><br />On the Unknown Soldier: (title) Part II, Interment, November 11, 1921. (rather than "internment").<br />Vast difference in Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com