PODCAST: Shock Collar Question of the Day (08/17/20)

Today's question: During the first World War, the English language changed faster than almost any other time in history...The war produced a huge amount of military slang. Many of those phrases are still around today...and one of them is "basket case". We know that as a reference to a person "who is useless or unable to cope"... but that's not what it meant back then. How did the term "basket case" come about, during World War one?

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