From: Dave 

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:53:14 -0400, "Steve Ewing"
 wrote in message
:

| On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:17:41 -0700, Alan Cairns
 | wrote:
|
| > What do those who serve on submarines call themselves? Most seem to use
| > an analogy with "mariners",
"submriners"; others argue from
| > "submarine" and use "submarners. Which form
is used by the real
| > thing?
| >
| > Alan
|
| The latter, at least what I've heard in the US.  Note that Brit and |
Canadian pronunciation may well be different (been on port visits to |
Halifax twice, but didn't run into any submariners there).

Among watch collectors, I've never once heard anyone from any continent
refer to a Rolex "SubmarEEner."

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