S vs Tommy - What's the difference?
s | tommy |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(colloquial) Tommy Atkins; a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.
* 1892 , , "Tommy"
* 1929 , , :
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 129:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun tommy is
(uk|slang|obsolete) bread, generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}tommy
English
Noun
(Tommies)- Then it's Tommy' this, an' '''Tommy''' that, an' "' Tommy , 'ow's yer soul?"
- But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll
- And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies , with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.
- He liked the Germans better than he did the French; but for all that, if he went down the back streets of a night, it was with three or four British Tommies , in case the Jerries weren't as friendly as they made out.