SHORTER COMMANDS
SOLDIERS NOW “SCRAM” (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON. August 22 “The enemy is over there—scram,” was a platoon commander's order. His men understood it and “scrammed” most effectively,” says the Daily Telegraph. “Scram” is one of the new words to find their way into the miiltary vocabulary. Many military commands have been shortened. Some of them have not been officially sanctioned. Today officers have considerable license in coining short, snappy words to convey the meaning of the enterprise to be carried out with speed, spirit and resolution. None of them is snappier than the classical American effort: “Into fours—git.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21244, 15 October 1940, Page 8
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101SHORTER COMMANDS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21244, 15 October 1940, Page 8
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