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Friday, May 11, 2012

Friday Timewaster

Massacre balloons with your flak gun.

The term "flak," which has become an officially recognized part of the English language and is often used in a non-military context (don't gimme no flak over this), is actually the German contraction for Flugzeugabwehrkanone, meaning anti-aircraft cannon. (Germans tend to use a lot of contractions, for obvious reasons.) You've probably also heard anti-aircraft fire referred to as "ack-ack." That's derived from the German for "eighty-eight," in reference to the famous 88mm guns of World War II.

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