Wild BillM to Everett True [email protected] • 1 month 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 BillM to Everett True [email protected] • 1 month agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•1 month agoDid a quick google, seems to have been a term used for the flu
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•1 month agoAlso the cold. In my parents Spanish (Central America), we still use “gripe” to refer to any disease with flu like symptoms.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 month 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-square@verity_kindlelink3•1 month ago“Grippe” was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
minus-square@verity_kindlelink3•1 month agoBetter catch that than “the evil”, which refers to leprosy!
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
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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”…
“Grippe” was still used in American movies in the mid-1950s.
Better catch that than “the evil”, which refers to leprosy!