I think that the hard helmet worn by pilots in these latter days is to protect them when they go through the canopy during ejection.
Sheath or Sheaf?
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I think that the hard helmet worn by pilots in these latter days is to protect them when they go through the canopy during ejection.
Proper modern ejection systems have a sequence of events and the canopy fires before the seat. However the ejected crewmen often need protection when landing through whatever ground cover (trees, electrical lines, mountains, etc.)
Plus the amount of tech and gadgets built in need a hard shell to support them. Reading the specs on the helmet for the new F-35 is like reading sci-fi with its HUD, DAS, IR Camera links & MADL. Don't think it would sit on an old sheep-skin job.
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Reasonable point except that complication was introduced by the Anglo-Saxon elite's domination of the original English spoken in Eastern Pritain even before the Romans arrived. The spelling of the written words confuses the issue but" Hweat" is simply "What", for example.
Here is a list of English words that Wiki mistakenly claims are of Anglo-Saxon origin. I have given evidence for this before on this forum so won't repeat it but there is a fair amount of evidence if people like to Google. One significant point is that after the decline of the AS elite and their education system post Norman Conquest the basic English re-emerged stripped of its AS ornamentation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Anglo-Saxon_origin
Ahh that might be where I've heard 'sheaf' before then... used to collect bales as a kid on the local farm, so possible the farmer had a sheaf knife.
My various dictionaries say for a sword, dagger, bayonet, knife, or rifle. In use I've also seen shotguns carried in scabbards.
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All scabbards are sheaths, but only some sheaths are scabbards, that is to say a sheath can be for other items than a knife. As for holster, where does that come from?
Sheath for a knife. As others have said a sheaf was the tied bundle of unthrashed corn harvested by the binder in the mid part of the 20th century before the invention of the combined harvester. Around me on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border sheaves were often known as "shoffs"...
Holster is Dutch in origin but it's etymology is unknown as far as I know.
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Regional accents are all fine and dandy for those that speak them, for the rest of us trying to phone our banks at a callcentre they're a frustrating nightmare.
Fit!?! Thons fechtin' toak far ah come fae.
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Translation
What! That's fighting talk where I come from.
Translation
What! That's fighting talk where I come from.
I say! A chap from South of Bristol that understands the Northern vernacular.
Astounding what? 
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I say! A chap from South of Bristol that understands the Northern vernacular.
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Lang may yer lum reek!
Lang may yer lum reek!
Cor blame guv'ner, you're a right card and no mistake. A propah pearly.
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Lost in translation!
I lived in Essex for a while a few years ago (I'm Irish, from Dublin by the way). Yeah, three trees, and all that. Anyway, one day I went for a drive with a few mates and we decided to go to a place I had never heard of. I was driving.
"No worries, you can't miss it mate, it's one of the big exits off the A13" (I think it was)
So I'm driving along and next thing they're screaming at me from the back seat.
"You just drove past the exit, you muppet!"
"No, I didn't, that said Thurrock" (Can you tell where this is going?)
"Yeah mate, Furrock, that what's we said..."
Another time, I asked someone for the "jacks" and they gave me a fiver! I was actually looking for the toilet
I lived in Essex for a while a few years ago (I'm Irish, from Dublin by the way). Yeah, three trees, and all that. Anyway, one day I went for a drive with a few mates and we decided to go to a place I had never heard of. I was driving.
"No worries, you can't miss it mate, it's one of the big exits off the A13" (I think it was)
So I'm driving along and next thing they're screaming at me from the back seat.
"You just drove past the exit, you muppet!"
"No, I didn't, that said Thurrock" (Can you tell where this is going?)
"Yeah mate, Furrock, that what's we said..."
Another time, I asked someone for the "jacks" and they gave me a fiver! I was actually looking for the toilet
(An Aberdonian comes back from his holiday in Paris.
His mate asks "Sandy did you hay a guid time loon?"
"I did that, think the waitress fancied me though like."
"Fi's that Sandy?"
"Weel at breakfast every day she asked me how mony eggs I'd like, like. I aye said "twa",... and ye ken fit? She aye gave me "three"!")
Badoom Tish! - I'll get my coat.
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His mate asks "Sandy did you hay a guid time loon?"
"I did that, think the waitress fancied me though like."
"Fi's that Sandy?"
"Weel at breakfast every day she asked me how mony eggs I'd like, like. I aye said "twa",... and ye ken fit? She aye gave me "three"!")
Badoom Tish! - I'll get my coat.
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