Skipman Posted 16 May , 2022 Share Posted 16 May , 2022 Struggling with a word on the attached grim entry in the 2/Camerons diary 11/1/1915 "Mud in trenches terrible & presented severe menace? to general safety - ?????? 2 men who fell forward in it & could not move & were suffocated." Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner 87 Posted 16 May , 2022 Share Posted 16 May , 2022 2 minutes ago, Skipman said: Struggling with a word on the attached grim entry in the 2/Camerons diary 11/1/1915 "Mud in trenches terrible & presented severe menace? to general safety - ?????? 2 men who fell forward in it & could not move & were suffocated." Mike Could it be 'witnessed'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 May , 2022 Author Share Posted 16 May , 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Gunner 87 said: Could it be 'witnessed'? It might just be. I was seeing witness but witnessed makes much more sense. Mike Edited 16 May , 2022 by Skipman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 16 May , 2022 Share Posted 16 May , 2022 I think just 'witness'. Used in an archaic form meaning "For instance" or " An example being". I think it derives from the archaic "Witness the fact that...", meaning "Look at the fact that..." I don't think it means that the writer actually observed the event himself. (Otherwise surely he would have tried to intervene and recorded that too?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 May , 2022 Author Share Posted 16 May , 2022 10 minutes ago, Dai Bach y Sowldiwr said: I think just 'witness'. Used in an archaic form meaning "For instance" or " An example being". That also makes sense. Dreadful events at any rate and shows how dreadful conditions were at this stage. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted 16 May , 2022 Share Posted 16 May , 2022 not "severe menace", but "serious menace" IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 16 May , 2022 Author Share Posted 16 May , 2022 2 minutes ago, AOK4 said: not "severe menace", but "serious menace" IMHO. Yes, of course it is. Thank you. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 16 May , 2022 Share Posted 16 May , 2022 2 hours ago, AOK4 said: not "severe menace", but "serious menace" IMHO. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hill244 Posted 20 May , 2022 Share Posted 20 May , 2022 Witness as in "I saw" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 20 May , 2022 Author Share Posted 20 May , 2022 2 minutes ago, Hill244 said: Witness as in "I saw" That may be right as in I witnessed two men. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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