late = 'died long ago' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I ran across it in a "How to Speak Southern" type of book, in the
context of a bad joke, along the lines of:

Northerners call it "The Civil War"
Southerners call it "The War Between the States"
True Southerners call it "The War of Northern Aggression"
Pockets of South Carolina call it "The Late Unpleasantness"


This was in the late 1980s, well after the surge of such books in the
Jimmy Carter years.


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> Has it been called that ...lately?
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> > Well, the war over which Lincoln presided has been called "the late
> > unpleasantness".
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> > > CNN mentions that Mr. Obama quoted "the late President" in his
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> > > Which President was it?
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> > > Abraham Lincoln.
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