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Old 14-05-2013, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue Skies View Post
Ah, yes. I believe you have a point there. Perhaps you should include the Welsh in there, as I have run into an ornery Welshman as well, to my misfortune...I'm still confused as to whether its Britain, Great Britain, England or the UK, nothing I tried to use seemed to make him happy.
Best say Britain. Then everyone (well, nearly everyone) is happy. Non-Brits, don't whatever you do, conflate 'England' with the United Kingdom or Britain as a whole. That annoys everyone, including the English

I call the asterism the Dipper, influenced by doing a lot of observing in the US.
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