They better be locked up before the people learn the Truth.
This is the 3rd Fema money disaster that Butte County has endured in the last couple of years. I'm starting to wonder if the Sheriff is a white hat and the county is being targeted because he won't play ball…
Bunch of older country folk. I don't think so.
Placeholder
Lieutenant: this also comes directly from French, and literally means placeholder (lieu is French for place, and tenant for taking/holding). Consider how we also use lieu and tenant in English. We can use the phrase in lieu of in lieu of instead of or in place of, and a tenant was originally someone who held land. Lieutenant was originally a general term for a second-in-command, who would take the place of a superior. The word is pronounced quite differently in American and British English. In American English, it sounds like lootenant, whereas in British English, it’s pronounced leftenant. This may be due to the Old French variant spelling of lieu, luef. Or, it may be a result of the fact that in Latin, a lingua franca when the word came into use, the letter V was used to represent both U and V.
https://englishlanguagethoughts.com/2017/12/17/placeholders-and-little-chiefs-the-meanings-of-military-ranks/