Wild Bill@midwest.socialM to Everett True Comics@midwest.social · 4 months agoLeave me to hot milk for medicine (January 23, 1908)midwest.socialimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down13
arrow-up162arrow-down1imageLeave me to hot milk for medicine (January 23, 1908)midwest.socialWild Bill@midwest.socialM to Everett True Comics@midwest.social · 4 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareRexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 months ago“Grippe” is the German word for flu. I know that some German words have become unpopular during WW1. I read about e.g. the term “German Measles” being more widely used, but this literally contains the word “German”…
minus-squareverity_kindle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months ago“Grippe” was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
minus-squareverity_kindle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoBetter catch that than “the evil”, which refers to leprosy!
“Grippe” is the German word for flu.
I know that some German words have become unpopular during WW1.
I read about e.g. the term “German Measles” being more widely used, but this literally contains the word “German”…
“Grippe” was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
Better catch that than “the evil”, which refers to leprosy!