At 07:38 AM 10/7/96 -0700, you wrote:
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>In response to numerous postings about the B-2, William H. Lawrence writes:
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>>jizz --birders picked this up from british fighter pilots wwII
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>I'm interested in the etymology of this word. Did the pilots use the word
>in the same sense that birders use it? Is its useage standardized amoung
>birders? I don't recall any of the books I have looked through on birding
>saying much, if anything, about jizz.
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>Ed Schulz
>Everett, WA
>eschulz at eldec.com
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Ed---re jizz

i first encountered the word in RTP's foreword to Shorebirds by
hayman, marchant, prater. page 11 RTP writs--" the sophisticated
wadere-watcher sometimes speaks of a bird's "jizz", a term
derived
from the fighter pilots' acromy, "gis" --general impression
and shape."
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