Comments on: When did the ‘Great War’ become the ‘First World War’?

By: discontents - QueryPic

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Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:06 +0000

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By: Cath

Cath — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:14:35 +0000

Hey Tim, excellent that you blogged this – I enjoyed your prezo at the Museum. I guessed 1941 would be the crossover from Great War to WWI because that’s the year parliament decided the Australian War Memorial should expand its commemoration from the Great War to every war in which Australian defence forces had served and would serve (ie every war except the undeclared war on Indigenous people). [lazyweb alert: Are parliamentary debates digitised?]

Can you pleaz give more details about which tools you use for what – turn this into a tutorial for us less proactive tinkerers?

By: Dave Earl

Dave Earl — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:53:07 +0000

Hello Tim,

Another great blog!

I wonder if the discrepancy between the British-English and the American-English corpora is due to the use of the American term “World War One”?

Cheers,

Dave.