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Imagine being in the Thirty Years Wars and you realize it's year 29 so the end is near
Imagine it's year 9 of the Nine Years War and then they're like "just joking, it's the second Hundred Years War".
No, they are very good at giving accurate names beforehand like the War to almost End War