Chats

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During World War I, soldiers in the trenches were typically covered in lice. The British soldiers called them chats and the only way they could get rid of them was either to crack them off with a fingernail or to burn them out of the seams of clothing with a candle flame. This process took hours, and it became a great social occasion, called chatting.