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THE WORD OF THE DAY
Anzac
/ˈæn.zæk/
Origin:
Acronym of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, coined in 1915.
Definition:
Referring to the soldiers from Australia and New Zealand who served in the campaign and the legacy associated with them.
Example:
“Anzac became a lasting symbol of sacrifice and national identity.”
WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY?
On January 9, 1916
The End of the Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
How Defeat Reshaped English War Language
The end of the Battle of Gallipoli marked a defining moment in how war was written in English. Though a military defeat for the Allied forces, the campaign generated an enduring body of English-language diaries, letters, poems, and memoirs that reshaped the tone of World War I writing. Gallipoli accelerated a move away from heroic Victorian rhetoric toward a more disillusioned, restrained, and observational war prose.
In the English-speaking world—especially in Australia and New Zealand—Gallipoli became foundational to national literary identity. Soldier-writers and later historians developed a plain, emotionally controlled English style to describe failure, endurance, and loss, influencing later war literature from the Western Front. This linguistic shift helped establish modern English war writing as ironic, sober, and anti-romantic, a style that would define much of 20th-century conflict literature.
The campaign also expanded the political and moral vocabulary of English, introducing enduring terms and narratives around imperial overreach, strategic miscalculation, and collective memory. Commemorative writing, especially around ANZAC, fused personal testimony with national reflection, creating a hybrid English discourse of history and mourning. January 9, 1916 thus stands as a key date in the evolution of modern English historical and literary language.
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