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Originally Posted by Artynut
Having "Broken Bread" at your table Dave, I've no wish to get into a contest with you but methinks you are bowing to the modern generation of texters and their abominable spelling habits! Personally, I never heard the word "Pagri" untill I joined this forum and always knew what the word "Puggaree" meant. Your argument re Pips and Stars, Chevrons and stripes are acceptable names for the articles in question but as SAS1 so rightly points out, a Pagri and a Puggaree are two distinctly different items. From your friend across the pond, DJ.
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If a a Pagri and a Puggaree are two different items I think we may ask "on whose authority", see my 0921 above.
Additional collateral for the two words meaning the same is in Carman's Dictionary of Military Uniform.
Proof, please?