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Life in the Killing Fields revealed: How soldiers survived in the trenches and spent their time concocting their own slang
Saturday, July 12, 2014 8:48
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Via WiscoDave
The First World War was just that – a global conflict in which soldiers from six continents played their parts.
Men huddling in trenches quickly spiced their conversation with foreign words, dialect, rhyming slang, puns and new terms for the strange conditions they found themselves in. When demobbed in 1918, they carried their soldiers' lingo back into civilian life.
Some phrases that came out of those times are still with us. How many of these did you realise were WWI vintage?
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Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/07/life-in-killing-fields-revealed-how.html
