11-12-2002, 01:21 AM
I think if I'd been one of them I'd have called it nothing printable...so Bellum Poenicum would have to do for the Acta Diurna assuming they were around at the time.<br>
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For other wars, I don't know if you'd find a consistent pattern; if you did it would probably be geographic. I was born in 1949, and remember the BBC mentioning 'the War in Korea'...it was certainly the Korean War by 1955 at latest...we called Vietnam the Vietnam War or the War in Vietnam at college in the late 60s. Having a developed media will certainly speed up widely-accepted labelling.<br>
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As to World Wars I and II, WWI was called The Great War until the next one began, but I have no idea what it was called during the actual fighting. Easy to find clippings to tell us. World War II was certainly called that by name by mid-1942, once America and Japan were in it, but it was not a common reference, only in more rarefied discussions. As a boy, I had a treasured stack of National Geographics from about 1941 through 45 and I swear I read every word and looked at every picture twice. They definitely referred to World War II by name, though rarely.<br>
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For other wars, I don't know if you'd find a consistent pattern; if you did it would probably be geographic. I was born in 1949, and remember the BBC mentioning 'the War in Korea'...it was certainly the Korean War by 1955 at latest...we called Vietnam the Vietnam War or the War in Vietnam at college in the late 60s. Having a developed media will certainly speed up widely-accepted labelling.<br>
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As to World Wars I and II, WWI was called The Great War until the next one began, but I have no idea what it was called during the actual fighting. Easy to find clippings to tell us. World War II was certainly called that by name by mid-1942, once America and Japan were in it, but it was not a common reference, only in more rarefied discussions. As a boy, I had a treasured stack of National Geographics from about 1941 through 45 and I swear I read every word and looked at every picture twice. They definitely referred to World War II by name, though rarely.<br>
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