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Originally Posted by Romel Panzer  Which is correct: " To fire the first salvo" or "To fire the first sally". |
As Anglika says, 'salvo' is right. It would be understandable if you said 'sally' though - same initial syllable, same stress, same number of syllables, same semantic field [a 'sally' is a movement in a situation of conflict; walled towns often have a small gate called a 'sally port'] - so it's an easy mistake to make.
And you
could say 'to make the first sally'.
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