I was interested in the question and your answer about the pronunciation of “lieutenant”. My dad served in the Royal Canadian Navy for 20 years, and he always pronounced it l’tenant. Neither “loo”, like the Americans, nor “left”, but an elision. He said that this was traditional in the navy – since I took everything he told me as gospel, and he was a confirmed anglophile, I assume that may have been the case in the Royal Navy as well. Jeanie Dubberley