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Old 24-01-2004, 06:35 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Lifting our forum@

In article ,
Rod wrote:
Kay Easton wrote:
In article , Sacha
writes
UK Forum

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- Section for the English.

^^^^^^^

!!
That should annoy a lot of people!
Do you think we should tell them?

Waste of breath - try explaining what Wales is to the average merkin ;~(
(Our resident colonials sre honourable exceptions of course.)


Or, if you have nothing better to do and/or are feeling malicious,
explain to them exactly how the meaning of the term "United Kingdom"
varies with context and how the historical, legal, political (de jure)
and political (de facto) boundaries differ. And why the UK (in the
largest sense) is a much looser federation than the USA.

And see if they believe you :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.