"Basket Case, Strafe & Cooties: WWI Slang Still in Use Today" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Mar 2019 9:31 p.m. PST |
"For better or worse, the First World War forever changed the way that subsequent wars would be fought, and profoundly affected international relations between a number of prominent world powers – but it has also had a lasting impact on less obvious aspects of human existence, such as language. Many terms that either had their origin in the trenches of the First World War, or were popularized and the brought into the civilian lexicon by the servicemen who fought in the war, are words we still use today – words like "basket case," "cooties," "strafe," and a number of others…."
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 Legion 4  | 03 Apr 2019 3:11 p.m. PST |
Well it was the first war where aircraft could do a "strafing" run, AFAIK … |
| Tango01 | 04 Apr 2019 12:26 p.m. PST |
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