Prayer of the Day BBC Radio 4 Rant

[Mark Hone]

'Prayer' and 'Thought' are actually different features. 'Prayer for the Day' is a brief item culminating in a prayer, as the name implies; 'Thought' by contrast is a short essay.

[Muerrisch]

Is not the real issue one of using the term casualty to refer only to the dead rather than actual casualties? I know little of actual numbers killed or wounded but the real definition of casualty is 'killed or wounded' and not just killed. When a military concept chooses to use a term to relate other than the real definition what do you expect but confusion?

and missing, and PoW and indeed sick by the way.

Any man not available for duty therefore.

[Dragon]

Add to that the reluctance to use any word which clearly says 'dead'. Euphemisms abound, the fallen, the lost, fell, gave all, didn't come home, etc etc, Sometimes you hear or read material and end up not knowing whether the originator meant the men were dead or not.