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Re: British vs. English (sorta LBC related)

To: mgs <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: British vs. English (sorta LBC related)
From: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 02:23:01 -0700
Three points:

I thought his father, Philip, also drove a MG while courting Elizabeth.

<<<snip>>>FWIW;
>Prince Charles drove a CGT while in school.
<<<snip>>>

I spent 18 years trying to teach students that the Soviet Union was to be called
the USSR, the Soviet Union, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and not
Russia.  Then the SOB's break up!!

<<<snip>>>
aul.hunt1@virgin.net wrote:
> 
> English things come from England.
> Britsh things come from England, Scotland or Wales.
> UK things come from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
> 

Sort of like American, North American and United States of America
(England is the name of a country).
<<<snip>>>

And Finally, I guess most of us have LECs and not LBCs.  Sooo, everyone has a
LEC as in, "I LEC icecream."

Blake



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