NICKNAME CAME FIRST
Designation of the new unit of women in the U.S. Navy as WAVES was not due entirely to the unpronounceable combination of letters of the official title —Women’s Naval Reserve Corps—but was rooted in Admiral Jacobs’s feeling that it is time for a little originality in America on the subject of military nicknames. The term WAVES was suggested and agreed upon, and then the words “Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service” devised to fit it. In England the British equivalent of the newly formed corps is known familiarly as the “Wrens,” from the combination of letters farmed by the official name. Women’s Royal Naval Service.—(“New York Times”).
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 26 November 1942, Page 1
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