It is now 100 years since WW1. English and the many other European languages have changed in that time – especially in terms of politics and technology.
Here, for example, are a few WW1 words in chronological order -
Prussian military power, the Kaiser, the Boche; Triple Entente, enlistment, rationing, the front, trench warfare, chemical warfare, armistice, demobilization.
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