"Alan Lothian" wrote in message
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In article , Errol
Cavit wrote:


snippaggio

Mark Burton, Minister of Defence and Major General Martyn Dunne,
Commander Joint Forces New Zealand will farewell the deploying
personnel at Ohakea.

Is this "farewell" verb some new antipodean wickedness? We need to
know, Errol. "We sure farewelled them Hussein sons of bitches..."


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Main Entry: 3fare·well
Function: transitive verb
Date: 1580
chiefly Australian & New Zealand : to bid farewell to