[harrowup]

5) Many military message writers naturally and others were so encouraged to use short words where possible to speed communications. . . . a practice Radiomen typing on clunky teletypes greatly appreciated.

All of your points have merit but this one I have an answer for...crash and wreck are both short and I've seen enough klunky teletype machines to agree with your thoughts on the matter.

[Quix]

I would think family usage would dictate more between crash vs wreck.

45% of Americans think aliens are monitoring earth.

And evidently more than 3,000,000 Americans have been abducted--by ET's; ET's and Government personnel and/or government personnel in anti-grav craft. Not sorting all that out will be very interesting. Who knows what the disinformation percentage is!