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* If you study typesetting, you will learn how to [[wikipedia:Widows and orphans|eliminate widows and orphans]].

* In his famous collection of dispatches ''The Desert War'' Alan Moorehead describes Vichy prisoners as being sent to British "Concentration Camps". At the time of writing the word simply meant prison camp in this case for POWs. Rather then the [[Those Wacky Nazis|associations]] it came to have.

**The original concentration camps were places where civilians were concentrated to keep them from supporting Boer Partisans. They were more then brutal enough especially as they often did not have the most competent of bureaucrats. But it was the word British invented, for a rather nasty practice but a common enough one in guerilla warfare and not the thing. The Nazi camps were for exterminating or working to death (rather then confining) people who had not even considered resisting before they found themselves on cattle cars, and were not by any stretch of the imagination a military or political threat. It was one of those words that becomes [[Darker and Edgier]] with time like "stormtrooper" (assault infantry), or Holocaust (burnt offering) because the Nazis managed to give it more ominous associations.

* When Muslims slaughter a sheep they say, "In the name of Allah, the merciful and compassionate" which sounds both paradoxical and bloodthirsty, However what they really mean is, "Thank you for this food."