dailyinfo[23]=' 9656 Private Isaac COOPER "A" Coy. I like all different accents from any country - it's interesting to me. Pronunciation of "Lieutenant" . It's simply an attempt for English speakers to pronunce French phonemes, I don't believe there's an additional reason. dailyinfo[5]=' 12147 Private Harry COOK 8th Bn. 5th Bde. Royal Indian Navy rating (may be found spelt Tendal) Topass. Lieutenant(Antigua and Barbuda Coast Guard)[6], Lieutenant(Royal Bahamas Defence Force)[8], Lieutenant(French: Lieutenant de vaisseau)(Royal Canadian Navy)[11], Lieutenant(Liberian National Coast Guard)[15], Lieutenant(Urdu: , romanized:Leftinent)(Pakistan Navy)[20], Lieutenant(Papua New Guinea Maritime Element), Lieutenant(Saint Kitts and Nevis Coast Guard), Lieutenant(Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard)[24], Lieutenant(United States Coast Guard)[26], Lieutenant(Bislama: Lietnen)(Vanuatu Maritime Wing). The Royal Navy recruitment test - Verbal ability. Here's a link to an article that explains the whole thing: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents On submarines and smaller Coast Guard cutters, the billet of first lieutenant may be filled by a petty officer. Fun Fact: American english, and all of it's accents is named general american Oh, for goodness sake: grow up, will you? You make a good point about the whole 'loo' part of it. While it will always remain a mystery, I think that this goes back to the OF pronunciation of "lieu" to sound like "lyeuch". YWVmOGM3ZDZkNTJhNjYwMjlhNmI5MDBiYmViYjY1M2ZiNDA5MzFiYTc3YmQ5 Although lieutenants are no longer numbered by seniority, the post of "first lieutenant" remains. I'm still not sure how on earth to pronounce it . Of course- this is opinion and I have been wrong before. MmM4NTEzMzQyNDI0YWU5MzA1ZGU3YzRmM2QyNjIyNzE5MjYwZjM0YWFkODE0 I do enjoy the battle between the Americans and the British as to which is "proper" English". Lieutenant Commander RN: Step 13: 74,047: Step 12: 72,595: Step 11: 71,171 . New Zealand Engineers who died 13/03/1918 ST. POL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION France ' //-->, By They served as watchkeeping officers and also specialised, becoming Gunnery, and later . I think a lot of younger people in the UK also do so. WW2 US M1 HELMET LINER H R HOOD RUBBER GOOD CONDITION. In most navies, the rank's insignia may consist of two medium gold braid stripes, the uppermost stripe featuring an executive curl in many Commonwealth of Nations; or three stripes of equal or unequal width. 0 && stateHdr.searchDesk ? After the Battle of France, Blake was seconded to the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command due to a shortage . He must be a right-winger trying to create a false historical reality. Lieutenant (Royal Navy) Lieutenant (pronounced "ltnnt" or "l'tnnt") [1] was a commissioned rank in the Military Branch of the British Royal Navy. Here's a link to the Revolutionary War Theory: http://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.html. dailyinfo[2]=' 8020 Serjeant Charles POOLE "C" Coy. Pride which they soon recovered during the Napoleonic conflict. Middlesex Regiment who died 25/02/1921 LADYWELL CEMETERY United Kingdom ' ZWMwYjkxNjNhNGRiY2RhNTQ4ZTY0MjMyMDY2MDUyZTc4MjQyM2VlOGY3N2Nj However, according to Etymonline, the OED rejects that theory. While Americans (and possibly others) pronounce this as "loo-tenant", folks from the UK pronounce it as "lef-tenant". var year=mydate.getYear() The Lieutenant always had someone guarding the sword when the Commanding Officer was wearing it. I think the concept of a person holding place on the left side of his commanding officer has merit; thus the "left" came into it, but only orally. ZGI1YjZhNWRkZmVjZWJhMDhhOWIyZjRjOGZmNDY3ZmZhYjZmN2VkM2YwN2Nm Left - tenant will eventually. The 'Leftenant' pronunciation appears to stem from Middle French which both had very different pronunciations to Modern French (like English) and the French-speaking elite in England definitely spoke very differently to those in France - we know this was a source of some mockery in the Middle Ages. Or, as orthographic u and v were often used interchangeably, Anglophones for some reason hypercorrected their pronunciation to match the orthography, so: /l(j)u:tennt/ (or /l(j)ewtnnt/) YjNhM2FhZTE4ZmRmZjMyYTE0OGQxODk1MjlhN2M2YTVmNWIwZTkxYzk5YjMy Training Ship : TU . Highland Light Infantry who died 19/03/1915 LE TOURET MEMORIAL France ' No one really knows why, it's just one of those things that happens with military tradition. Actually, David from Birmingham, you're flat wrong about Ben from Denver being a moron because he asserted that British people used to speak like Americans. . NzE2Nzg4YjdjMTJjMjhhMzIzYmJiOGQxMGU2MTA5NDdlYTNmNzQ5OGZlMjVi Royal Army Medical Corps who died 22/02/1919 NUNHEAD (ALL SAINTS) CEMETERY United Kingdom ' WW2 Royal Navy Sub Lieutenant's peaked cap, HMS Indomitable. English is called English because it evolved from England - that's about as far as we can go with nationalist claims to the language. and Gen. Hos. 3rd Bn. This was confirmed to me by Admiral (Rtd) Rufus Mckenzie during a drink in his home, also confirmed by his Lieutenant on HMS/m THRASHER Reggie Fitzgerald. Is it like . 2. YTQxMjE0ZGUzNjZjM2Q2NjVkY2FmZGM4NjJkNDdkNjYzZTQ1ZjJhNTQ5YmZh Historically, the lieutenants in a ship were ranked in accordance with seniority, with the most senior being termed the first lieutenant and acting as the second-in-command. Generated by Wordfence at Sat, 4 Mar 2023 16:59:28 GMT.Your computer's time: document.write(new Date().toUTCString());. Are you considering the U.S. Navy as enlisted or as an officer? The best answers are voted up and rise to the top, Not the answer you're looking for? Lieutenant salaries at Royal Navy can range from 44,510 - 55,095 per year. Before the English Restoration, lieutenants were appointed by their captains, and this inevitably led to abuses and to the widespread appointment of men of insufficient qualification. In minor war vessels, destroyers and frigates, the first lieutenant (either a lieutenant or lieutenant commander) is second in command, executive officer (XO) and head of the executive branch; in larger ships, where a commander of the warfare specialisation is appointed as the executive officer, a first lieutenant (normally a lieutenant commander) is appointed as his deputy.