<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>>Does anyone know of any books or articles or dictionaries that </DIV>
<DIV>> discuss the origin of the term "Civil War," in specific reference </DIV>
<DIV>> to the American conflict of 1861-65? <BR>> <BR>>Fred Shapiro </DIV>
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<DIV>Not me. But the term 'civil war' itself would seem almost as old as English itself, and most certainly, considerably older than the late unpleasentness. Certainly, it's the actual English lexical term for such events.</DIV>
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