The general went out to find that none of his GIs were there. One finally ran up, panting heavily.
"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I"m here."
The general was very skeptical about this explanation but at least he was here so he let the G.I. go.
Moments later, eight more GIs came up to the general panting, he asked them why they were late.
"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I"m here."
The general eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since he let the first guy go, he let them go, too.
A ninth GI jogged up to the general, panting heavily. "Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."
"Let me guess," the general interrupted, "it broke down."
"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in the road, it took forever to get around them."
n.pl. (usu. Treated as sing.) Branch of linguistics concerned with meaning.
SEMAPHORE
—n. - system of signalling with the arms or two flags.
- railway signalling apparatus consisting of a post with a movable arm or arms etc. —v. (-ring) signal or send by semaphore. [greek sema sign, phero bear]
SEMBLANCE
n. (foll. By of) appearance; show (a semblance of anger). [french sembler resemble]
SEMIBREVE
n. Mus. Note equal to four crochets.
SEMICOLON
n. Punctuation mark (;) of intermediate value between a comma and full stop.
SEMIFINAL
n. Match or round preceding the final. semifinalist n
SEMIOTICS
n. The study of signs and symbols and their use, esp. In language. semiotic adj. [greek semeiotikos of signs]
SEMIVOWEL
n. - sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant.
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