"Trench Terms and Their Meanings" was a regular installment of The Listening Post, a Canadian trench newspaper. This page covers "Soft Job," any work with less danger than being at the front, and "Whizz-Bang," a small shell humourously described as a dark, elongated insect. Trench slang was an exclusive dialect that helped to unify front line soldiers. At the same time, it excluded civilians from the inner world of the trenches.
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The Listening Post, No. 29, 1 Dec 1917, p. 26
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Canada and the First World War
