Feb Generalist

[shaneystar2]

38D Marched carrying full kit from San Carlos to Port Stanley ?O?P?D

[Thickster]

Yomped

[shaneystar2]

Thanks very much Thickster....Just looked it up in my Chambers dictionary and there it is ! Had tried all sorts of combinations of letters ....it's a new one on me !

[JerryB]

IIRC, there were newspaper reports at the time that the soldiers had invented the term "yomping," so that they could use it during radio communications, to indicate troop movements, and the enemy would not know what they were talking about - however, how true that story is I don't know.

[kayakamina]

I presume, from the clue, that the term originated in the Falklands?

[sarumite]

I found it here Shaney .........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomp

[shaneystar2]

Thanks very much all ....I had never heard of it before although it was obvious from the clue it was to do with the Falklands .
You learn something new every day.!
Found the G quite easy this month apart from that one !

[sarumite]

I agree shaney .. overall it was reasonably straightforward, but I wasn't able to directly link 'moses boat' to Lowell and Apres Coup wasn't immediately obvious. Trouble is we now have to wait a whole month for the next one! ;o)

[Dustybun]

I believe the verb 'yomp' was accepted military slang before the Falklands but came to the notice of the rest of us with some famous pictures used in the papers at the time of the conflict. I often find Google Images comes up with better information so I entered 'yomping, Falklands' :O)

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http: //www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/images/rmyomp.jpg&i mgrefurl=http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/mov1. html&h=192&w=250&sz=26&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=XNm XuB8NT_iYtM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq %3Dyomping%2BFalklands%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den% 26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1

[shaneystar2]

sarumite ... I found the reference to a Moses Boat in my OED .
Under Moses.....a type of boat used in Massachusetts !706 -!775.
As for Apres Coup ..being bilingual helped there as i just cross referenced with the same thing in German and learnt an awful lot about psychoanalysis which was most uninteresting ! .

Thanks for the info Dusty !!

[sarumite]

Surprisingly (perhaps) moses boat is not in Chambers, but I have found a web site where it is mentioned.

http://www.caribbeanarchaeology.com/Lighter.ht m