Originally Posted by thegrinch073

From what I have read, it stands for Disembarcation day or in other words, the day of attack. It always gets me mad when people think there was only one D-day in WWII. There were dozens, if not hundreds, but people think there is only one.

thats because THE D-Day is so famous

They called D-day is "Operation Overload". Overload because they send so many soldiers to invade Normandy.

Hmm, that's funny. They thaught me the "D" stands for Decision - Day. Well so much for that....

Originally Posted by Fox

They called D-day is "Operation Overload". Overload because they send so many soldiers to invade Normandy.

Yep that's right.

Is that some navy/army joke because of the huge logistics that took place?.... Or are you serious? Because it should be "Operation Overlord", but I figure that you already knew that....
I hope I don't sound condescending because that is not my intention.

Operation Overlord is correct... I believe the misnomer here of "overload" is most likely resulting from a non-rhotic dialect in either teacher, student or both.

Were it not for the american flags under their names I would have posited that they were speakers of the Estuary dialect of the UK.

Sorry I'm a geographer by profession. An estuary dialect rings on bell, but that has absolutly nothing to do with languages or their language-families...... In short: you speak in riddles to me my friend?!

Sorry mate, it has to do with whether or not the "r" is pronounced as most Americans do with a definite "er" or "ar" sound or like the british dialects that are very prevalent where the "r" sounds more like "ah" or "uh". Whereby someone with one of these dialects would pronounce the word overlord but you would hear "ovahload".

That's what I thought, it should be Overlord or Overload.

Alright, so I learned something new again. But how come you have a Chinese flag up... you seen very well informed for a Chinaman? But then again I might be presumptuous...again!