Troops tend to be deployed in 'battalions' (commanded by a lieutenant colonel) as a more convenient size of military unit and, as such, colonels have tended to have a higher profile in specialist and command roles than as actual commanders of regiments.
An iamb /ËaÉªÃ¦m/ or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in delay).
Term: Foot. A foot is a unit of metre, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. If stressed syllables are marked / and unstressed u, the main types can be shown thus: Iamb: [ u / ], such as delight. (The adjective is iambic.) Trochee: [ / u ], such as badger (Trochaic)