vocabularium

— I therefore want to know if a captain of volunteers is justified in applying to his superior officer language unbecoming an officer and a gentleman? If he is, then I would suggest that a regulation vocabulary should be served out to the whole force, so that officers and men may know the class of language an officer may be justified in applying to those of superior or inferior rank to himself. This would prevent a surprise, and all branches of the service would thoroughly comprehend the nature of orders given, no matter how much vocabularium, rhetoric or polite word-painting the most learned officer may lavish upon them in discharge of his arduous duties.