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Wes's avatar

Re your discussion about the attorney general being called “General” isn’t the surgeon general called “General”?

Also per the OED it looks like the term “general” for a military leader is an abbreviation of “captain general” from the French “capitaine général” which means that it was originally the adjective and not the noun.

John Bakker's avatar

It’s “coming down the pike.” Dan said “pipe.” Not shameful.

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