The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43932   Message #644606
Posted By: The Walrus at work
07-Feb-02 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: Humpty Dumpty
Subject: RE: Humpty Dumpty
Blackcatter,

"...Nice to know that war with 646,392 casualties is not considered a real war... "

I think it's just a reaction to continued American refrences to their civil war with the definite article and no national qualifiers (Always "The Civil War" seldom "The American Civil War").

Walrus