From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Friday, August 8, 2014 9:25:39 AM UTC-4, Dirk van den Boom wrote:   
   > Am 08.08.2014 15:07, schrieb Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor):   
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   > >> Turn about fair play.  English has loan-words from virtually every   
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   > > "Loan". That's funny. As if we're ever giving them back.   
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   > You guys can keep "Blitzkrieg". We don't need it anymore :-)   
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   It looks like the newspapers in the allied countries invented the term anyway.   
   At least, that's what I heard. The Germans never used the term until it had   
   appeared in the press over here or in Great Britain.   
      
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   Will in New Haven   
      
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