• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      Very true, which is why I made sure to clarify in my title. It’s an arrogant American thing to call it the civil war… although I suppose the English say the same thing about one of their many civil wars.

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        7 months ago

        Wouldn’t every country refer to the civil war that happened in their country as the civil war. Assuming that they only had one … we’ve had a few in the UK so they have their own names.

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            7 months ago

            Not really. I refer to our shed as the shed. It’s obviously not the only shed in the world.

            People tend to use the whatever when there is one whatever that is obviously more relevant to the conversation than the others.

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        7 months ago

        I genuinely had to check Wikipedia to remind myself which civil war we call the civil war. It’s the Roundheads apparently, and even that’s split into the civil war I, II and III. Ridiculous.