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It seems that no one who has posted really knows. But, it is a very old word, and soldiers have always been a rough lot, and though war has always been a rather dreadful thing, the trenches of WW1 raised the bar a bit. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the "trench talk" portrayed was accurate.
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"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot
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