Talk:Lieutenant/@comment-50.72.186.60-20160112215215

My dad served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1936 to 1956. He (and therefore we, his children) pronounced "lieutenant" as "l'tenant" - not "loo-tenant" and certainly not "lef-tenant". He had no idea why this was so, but it was the pronunciation used by the Royal Navy, and naval services are nothing if not traditional. He also liked that pronunciation because it was not American.