Yeah, but that’s just like ‘this is the first time we’ve had a war that pretty much encompasses the whole world’. Not that it really even did, but that’s beside the point.
Comment on Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen
mech@feddit.org 1 week agoErnst Haeckel called it First World War in September 1914.
It was called that by other authors in the interwar period, for example Charles à Court Repington published The First World War in 1920.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erster_Weltkrieg#Aufarbeitung_und_Rezeption
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 week ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Reread the headline - Naming it World War 1 was a bad omen. The first of anything is very normally called “the first” because it’s just that. Headline is about actually numbering it with a One.