On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:33:28 -0000, Mizter T wrote:

On 27 Nov, 15:21, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:
On 27 Nov, 10:02, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

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Tom Anderson wrote:

So the line can have the name the South London Atlantic Line, and
can
thus sport a South Atlantic theme. I'm thinking... er.. the
Falklands,
so mosaics of Romping soldiers...

Yomping ITYF - unless you have a different idea of soldiers
activities?

Err... err... err... no comment!

I'm not quite sure how I managed to get so discombobulated there. I'm
more of a tabbing man I guess - I'm less au fait with the strange
phraseology of these amphibious warriors.

And I shall correct myself before anyone else does - soldiers don't
yomp, marines do.

That was a movie, wasn't it - Red Coats Can't Yomp?

Soldiers apparently 'tab'; the advance from San Carlos Water to Port
Stanley was made by a joint force of Royal Marines and Paras, and thus
was
both a yomp and a tab. According to the ever-reliable wikipedia.

tom


Do keep up at the back there - hence my comments about me "being more
of a tabbing man".

Though to be fair I don't actually think soldiers ever adapt tab to be
used in the Gerund form - i.e. no -ing as in tabbING, so "we were on a
tab" - correct, but "we were tabbing" - incorrect.

Tabbing is what you do at the end of a yomp. When the Woodbines get passed
around.

--
Fig