01 November 2018

I Spell It Out

I'm old enough that it's always Eff Ay Ell and never Fal.

Hearing Ian or Erin saying Fal just trips a circuit breaker.

5 comments:

  1. Nope, you say Fal. If you want to do the Acronym thing, you must say it in the original French as it comes from the words Fusil Automatique Léger. In a pinch you can do Spanish as it is close enough: Fusil Automatico Ligero.

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    1. *I* don't say fal. You can if you want.

      Besides, FAL is multi-lingual. F is ef, A is Ay, and L is el in both French and English.

      Mr Fleetwood, who lugged one all over Africa, says it's F-A-L too. Of all of us, he's earned the right to call it anything he wants.

      If I can ever find some corroborating evidence I'll tell the story about my lugging one around.

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    2. When I toted a C1A1 we just called it an F_N. Now some said F_A_L but I never heard anyone say fal. It sounds gay. Of course in those days you could still say gay.

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    3. That amuses me because FN didn't make the C1A1!

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  2. Eff Ay El, all the time, but like the iterations of carbine and Garand, I know they're all acceptable. Hell I pronounce "cloaca" "cloaeca" because I had only read the term in books before I heard it in Latin class (means 'sewer') and I like that better, even though it is 100% wrong in English.

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