Tommy talk: From blot to doolally, the A-to-Z of trench slang


History | 206754 hits | Jul 12 2:08 am | Posted by: martin14
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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.

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  1. by avatar martin14
    Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:33 pm
    nice list. :)

  2. by avatar Hyack
    Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:47 pm
    My grandfather always went on about the bully beef, one of the few memories I have of him as I was still a tyke when he passed. :cry:



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