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To: IYAS9YAS; Reily; Chuckster
Wer = man.

From German:

Wehr = war (As in Wehrmacht = German Army).

80 posted on 03/20/2018 9:49:50 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: Does so
Wehr = war (As in Wehrmacht = German Army).

Krieg is German for war. As in Blitzkrieg - lightning war.

Wehr is more along the lines of force. Which is as you described - German Army. Wehrmacht means armed forces or defense force, depending on point of view. Gewehr means rifle (basically anything not select-fire), and Sturmgewehr means assault rifle (which was select-fire).

81 posted on 03/21/2018 5:58:14 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Does so

My Surface automatic spell checker disagrees!
It makes decisions before I can stop it.


82 posted on 03/21/2018 7:36:32 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Does so

Thank you. HS was more than fifty years ago.


83 posted on 03/21/2018 8:08:52 AM PDT by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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