Posted by Alan Hakim on April 04, 2006 at 15:22:04 from 213.166.17.21 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: SW: Sentry(-)go posted by Hilary Weston on April 04, 2006 at 10:24:09:
A sentry,when on duty, is on sentry-go. I did a lot of it in my National Service. I never knew it was a rare word.
And as Hilary points out, it was already in use in Victorian times. (And for those of you who don't know the song, note that the emphasis in 'exercises of his brains' is on 'of'.