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03/01/2006 15:29:27
 
 
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03/01/2006 15:23:04
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Politics
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01080011
Message ID:
01082834
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That is the difference. Firemen and firefighter. I think the original term (back in the 1600s) was fire warden though.



>>The men who shoveled coal into the boiler for the steam engine were called firemen.
>
>And the men who are nowadays called firefighters were called...? :)
>
>My list of words missing in English is only 322 rows long for now. Actually, this makes it 323. Make that 324 - no word for "feed fuel to fire".
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