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What is a Troop?

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Now usually I watch the evil tube to escape reality (that is why I don’t get reality shows ).  Yet, I do Tivo one show just for a laugh / thought and it is only for the last 5 minutes.  The show is 60 Minutes and the only thing I watch every week is Andy Rooney.  This week I can not believe that media finally realized how much the media abuses the English language.  The one that I have been waiting on is “troops”.   All my family on my father’s side have been in the military except for me.  I was wondering when someone besides me was going to realize that a Troop is a group of soldiers, not one .

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  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2005
    I believe that troops is short for troopers. The entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troop seems to agree.
  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2005
    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=troop
  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2005
    I'm still waiting for the media/government (who started it)/world in general to realize that "impact" is a noun and not a verb.
  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Classic, just classic.