Sunday 4th February 2024
    Difficulty: Hard

    WWI slang (Quiz #443)

    Questions by Nick Gough

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    1. What were called "chats"?

    2. What were called "cooties"?

    3. The American soldiers who joined the fight in 1917 were known as "doughboys" - but the word was actually in use about a hundred years earlier on both sides of the Atlantic. What did British soldiers and sailors of those days mean by "doughboys"?

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