Apparently, 'Bosche' was an accepted spelling of the word, according to the WWI Trench warfare exhibition that I just saw yesterday. Why they mixed Boche up with something closer to the Dutch word for 'woods', I don't know.
Alison
- On Thu, 8/14/08, Stewart Stansfield <stu_stansfield_at_8ArWpwZryO51t9KMwIZtQN2yInwspbJfcWzyYJl0ynxZZfHj0WXa406UV6iFpOpIoPKrBKcGVFny1j_h0ks5binIOA.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> Me:
> > If he could survive the Bosch and the Fuzzies...
>
> I have no idea why I wrote 'Bosch', as opposed to
> 'Boche'. Could be a
> Freudian slip indicating some deep-rooted powertools
> fetish. I'm sure
> the Colonel could survive a bizarre gardening accident as
> well, mind.
>
> Stew.