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Old 02-10-03, 01:02
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Default Terms of Reference-1939-1945

At a recent military conference, I was told that Commonwealth countries referred the the 39-45 unpleasantness as "The Second World War", whereas the US referred to it as "World War 2".

I've never heard of this differentiation; I always thought that the two terms were mutually interchangeable.

Is this an important discrimination to observe, depending upon one's context of reference?
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