At 23:50:36 on Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Ildhund <jnllb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> it's one of the reasons why UK children are obese and sluggish...
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>This may have been discussed before, but whatever happened to British as
an
>adjective meaning 'of or pertaining to the Britain, Great Britain, the
>British Isles or the United Kingdom'?
I tend to use UK when counter-balancing it against US, as we have been
doing rather a lot in this group lately :-) (The idea to be to avoid
using "American", which is a distinctly imprecise term.) So my use of
UK in this particular thread was a carry-over from the interaction with
aue.
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tem****ary
safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)
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