Trench Talk: Words of the First World War by Peter Doyle, Julian Walker

Trench Talk: Words of the First World War

Peter Doyle, Julian Walker

256 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
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This study looks at how he experience of the First World War changed the English language, adding words that were both in slang and standard military use, and modifying the usage and connotations of existing words and phrases.

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