When was the First World War first named as such?
Um, at the outbreak. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
You think they called it the first world war straight away?
Before it started, yeah.
It would be an act of a pessimist to call it the first world war that early, surely. It's gonna be some point after 1939, isn't it?
A realist, surely.
[Forfeit klaxon goes off - 1939]
Excuse me! I think I said - I think what I said, people in the box, is after 1939. Which may contain 1939, but does not mean it.
No. Well -
[Forfeit klaxon goes off - AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR]
[waving finger] Okay! No, no, no! "After 1939" and "after the Second World War" are not synonymous. Now, this is just giving you time to type "after 1939".
[Forfeit klaxon goes off - DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR]
Why don't you just type "MITCHELL IS A COCK"?
[warningly] I wouldn't put it past them...
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