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		HideousKojima on Jan 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe i... U-boat nowadays is used almost exclusively for WW2 era German submarines

thaumasiotes on Jan 18, 2024 [–]

That's not a "nowadays" thing. That has always been the meaning of U-boat; it was an explicit propaganda goal to use different words for German submarines and American ones.

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