Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis: The military origins of everyday words…

by Graeme Donald

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Joles recommends Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics) by George Rippey Stewart, "If you enjoy finding out where words come from, you may also be interested in how our places were named the way they are. Along the same vein of Sticklers, (see more) Sideburns & Bikinis is Names on the Land (although it isn't set up quite as accessibly as the former.)"

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