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Chris -- 2018-04-11
To quote from the Wikipedia entry for ‘casus belli,’ ‘It is often misspelt and mispronounced as “causus belli” since this resembles the English “cause” (and a different Latin word, causa {cause}). About 38,000 ghits, mostly about Iraq. Examples:
The fantasy rescue of a single GI from combat, however, becomes not just a cause celebre, but the Spielbergian causus belli. www.townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2 … cpl_shalit
Somehow, through the efforts of the people at Ledeen’s meeting, plus Rocco Martino and Francesco Pazienza, the Bush administration soon had its causus belli …
colorado.indymedia.org/newswire/display/11451/index.php
The causus belli was the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. When Saddam threw out the inspectors in 1997/8, he violated the cease-fire and the fight was back on.
www.danieldrezner.com/mt/KeYaHaMlAs.cgi?entry_id=2368
You seem to be parroting a popular urban legend about the causus belli. mcryanmac.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_mcryanmac_archive.html
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After I sent this in I noticed about 1300 ghits for ‘cassius belli’ as well. Not quite as eggcornish, although several belligerent characters named ‘Cassius’ are scattered through literature and sport
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