Subject: Re: Jizz etymology, was: life bird!
Date: Oct 07 09:15:17 1996
From: "William H. Lawrence" - whl at Localaccess.com


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.
>
>Ed Schulz
>Everett, WA
>eschulz at eldec.com
>
>
>Ed sorry something went wrong with my ans to you re jizz this is my 2nd reply

i first encountered the word in Shorebirds -an identification guide 1986
houghton mifflin by peter hayman et al. an expanation of the word
appears
in the foreword written by RTP. he writes--"the sophisticated
wader-watcher
somestimes speaks of of a bird's "jizz", a term derived from the
fighter pilots' acronym, "gis"--- general impression and
shape." this statement is found on page 11.
>
> bill