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Thread #49452   Message #747746
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
13-Jul-02 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: job descriptions
Subject: RE: BS: job descriptions
In the army almost fifty years ago I learned the system for equipment nomenclature: Most general noun form, followed by the qualifying adjectives, from most general to most specific.

Thus the instrument with which one might dig a foxhole would be a Mover, earth, portable, folding, hand-operated, air-cooled. Only the uninitiated would call it an entrenching tool.

Dave Oesterreich