Different nations named the same war period according to their own experience of it

Evidence

This eerie state of affairs would continue for months, in the ‘phony war’, as it was known in English. To the French it was the drôle de guerre or ‘funny war’, to the Germans the Sitzkrieg or ‘sitting war’, and to the invaded Poles the dziwna wojna, or ‘strange war’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 451

Categorization

• CANDY: Light, tweetable: each nation’s nickname for the phony war reveals its viewpoint — French ‘funny war’, German ‘sitting war’, Polish ‘strange war’.
• XREF: connects to: The same imperial expedition held wholly different meanings for each involved party

Broader Connections

• The same imperial expedition held wholly different meanings for each involved party #expands (0.85)