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What even is the grip?
Did a quick google, seems to have been a term used for the flu
Also the cold. In my parents Spanish (Central America), we still use "gripe" to refer to any disease with flu like symptoms.
Still to this day means flu in Quebec
"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"...
Better catch that than "the evil", which refers to leprosy!
"Grippe" was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
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