Do vs does

[Pacifica]

Apparently, yes. We also call it "la grande guerre".

 

[Dantius]

Yes. Well not much in America, I think, but I'm pretty sure that is the British locution.

 

[Issacus Divus]

In America, I've only seen it in history books and jokes, like if someone's making a joke about a time traveler who went to the present:
"So, what happens after the Great War?"
"You mean World War I?"
"What?"

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/memoryofwar/the-war-the-great-war-the-first-world-war/

 

[Bitmap]

I heard that Clinton got a little more votes than Trump by mere numbers, actually (but Trump won because of your complicated system whereby some states count more than others or something).

oO You really don't seem to care much about politics if you don't know how the electoral college works It's not so much a matter of whether some states count more as a matter of the first-past-the-post system (which you also find in the UK, just not with states, but with individual mandates from different voting districts).

So in other words, it doesn't matter whether you California by 60% or by 90% as long as you lose 3 others states by 49:51.

 

[Issacus Divus]

Right...

 

[Iohannes Aurum]

In America, I've only seen it in history books and jokes, like if someone's making a joke about a time traveler who went to the present:
"So, what happens after the Great War?"
"You mean World War I?"
"What?"

Same in Canada.

"Great War" is also only used in the historical sense and to avoid creating an anachronism.

 

[meisenimverbis]

Do you ever call WWI "the Great War"?

That's how they called it before there was a bigger one...