Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — CALL BRITISH TARS "LIMEYS” [ARTICLE]

CALL BRITISH TARS "LIMEYS”

American Bluejackets in European Watery Have Nickname for Everything They See. London. —American bluejackets on duty in European waters have a nickname of their own for England’s sailors and soldiers. They call them “limeys;” the individual being known as a “lime.” The American sailor men apply the designation to all English fighters jfist as the British refer to their soldiers a& “Tommies.” The sailor from the United States has his nickname for nearly everything he sees. Bluejackets who had served in the near and far East first started calling British sailors and soldiers “lime juicers,” because of their | fondness for fruit juice and charged water. Now the designation has been shortened down and everything British is British soldiers’ and sailors’ dubs are known as “limey clubs,” and British-brewed lager beer is commonly spoken of as “limey beer.”