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
>
>

When in England a few years ago I picked up a book titled "Birds by
Character- The Fieldguide to Jizz Identification" by Rob Hume and
illustrated by four people. On the back of the book is Jizz: The essential
character of a bird as derived from a combination of form, behaviour and
sometimes dominanat colouring.
No definition of the word Jizz or where it came from.
John Larsen jlarsen at teleport.com