OT: what's with the 'i'?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> And, on a more international note, if somebody just mentions "the war,"
> which war do you think of first?  I think that for most people it depends
> on their age because they'll think of either the first one in their
> lifetime or the first one they learned about when they were young.  I'm a
> 'Nam vet, but to me, the first war I'll always think of is going to be WW
> II because its after effects were still big when I was a child.  Yes, there
> was Korea when I was small, but it didn't have any impact on me, especially
> when compared to WW II.
>

I think it's also a cultural thing. In the UK, despite a number of more
recent conflicts which were certainly wars and are even called as such (the
Falklands war for example), *the* war means WWII.

poc
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