Re: PrecinctOmega's model dump

Posted by precinctomega on Mar 25, 2009; 11:26am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/PrecinctOmega-s-model-dump-tp2521414p2531862.html

You're one of those people who thinks that "khaki" means "green", aren't you?  Khaki comes from the Hindi word for "dust" and refers to the dust coloured fatigues originally worn by the British Expeditionary Force in the Boer War.  His trousers, tunic, helmet and shoulder pad are all khaki.

The confusion arises because, when Olive Drab uniforms were issued during the Second World War, they replaced the brown ones that had long been known as "khakis" and the OD ones retained the name.  Even today, my father, an old soldier, refers to his OD working trousers as khaki, even though they're nothing of the sort.

R.