On 13 Mar 2003 at 10:33, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> reading The Wasters recently, I noted the chorus ending with
> the typical Kipling trick of " ,etc."
>
> But what are we to make of etc here? In Sergeant's Wedding, itis a
> euphemism for a hoare. But here?
in "The Waster", it's an euphemism for "the Hun".
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