--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Dan Minette wrote:
> >
>>Technically, this is not true. Indeed, the U.S. Civil War is now >>called
>>the War Between the States by most (...)
>Bah. PC jargon suckz. I've always known this War as _The Secession >War_.
>Why give it two new (incorrect) names?
What two new names? I remember it being called the Civil War in a newsreel
from about 1913. My mother-in-law was taught about the War Between the
States when she was a school girl in the '40s. My understanding is that the
two names go back over 100 years, with the Civil War being used in the North
and the War Between the States in the South. Historians have looked at the
type of war, and have settled on the Southern term as more accurate.
Your reference to the war as the Secession War is the first time I have ever
heard of that term. Perhaps double translations through Portuguese is the
source of the term? I do not consider it PC when over 30-40 years, one term
gains over another because it is seen to be more accurate.
Dan'm Traeki Ring of Crystallized Knowledge.
Known for calculating, but not known for shutting up
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