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What even is the grip?
17 0 ReplyDid a quick google, seems to have been a term used for the flu
21 0 ReplyAlso the cold. In my parents Spanish (Central America), we still use "gripe" to refer to any disease with flu like symptoms.
12 0 ReplyStill to this day means flu in Quebec
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"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"...
9 0 ReplyBetter catch that than "the evil", which refers to leprosy!
3 0 Reply"Grippe" was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
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