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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Found this one, perhaps an American usage, ” Your militarily trained pilot will take you on a 15 to 17 minute flight over Manhattan”....in UK we would understand ”...pilot who worked in the military in the past…” http://www.isango.com/usa-tours/new-yor … light_6579
Last edited by friendfromLondon (2010-01-25 12:36:43)
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The earliest citation for “militarily trained†I could find in a Google Books search comes from a series of reports on the Indian Army prepared for the the British Parliament in 1859. This sentence appears on page 169 of the appendix:
The reasons which lead Major-General Birch to advocate the re-arming of some of the disarmed native corps are stated at length, as also the bearing which an armed police, militarily trained and organized, has upon the strength of European troops necessary for the military occupation of the country.
http://books.google.com/books?id=wbsSAA … 22&f=false
So “militarily trained†is apparently a Briticism that has gone on to corrupt the otherwise pure English we speak here in North America.
In any case, I don’t think it’s an eggcorn. But welcome to the forum, friendfromLondon.
Last edited by patschwieterman (2010-01-26 01:11:46)
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