World war one answers

[Moggle]

What were some popular sayings during 1900 to 1920?
Did they spell things differently than we do now?

[jno]

spelling was pretty much the same, though you might sometimes see to-day and to-night rather than a single word as they are now.

[dotovaposted]

'It'll all be over by christmas'
'Votes for women'

[terambulan]

"Dearest" Not sure I like that? Is it loving or a spend-thrift?

[Peter Pedant]

By Jove !

Virtually all the spellings are the same as they are now,
words end in ise

oh,...
we want eight and we won't wait !
That was a rearmament slogan, and referred to eight destroyers I think or dreadnoughts ?

words end in ise as I was saying
and endings have to be our, honour and colour

the running order of a theatrical production would be a programme and it wouldn't have any of the modern meanings.


amazingly the people who were involved in revolutions were called revolutionists and not revolutionaries, which is a later word.