doctor
8/24/2009 11:39:00 PM
In article <179b22a5-c8ce-4e80-8ac4-ab61701d3b16@s13g2000yql.googlegroups.com>,
HardySpicer <gyansorova@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Aug 25, 2:27=A0am, doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote:
>> In article <h6tqv6$kf...@scotsman.ed.ac.uk>,
>>
>>
>>
>> G Bell <gb...@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >"Stephen O'Connell" <no.s...@fk.u.com> writes:
>>
>> >>The Doctor wrote:
>> >>> 1) =A0Jamie McCrimmon in War Games told a US soldier that he was
>> >>> =A0 =A0 a Scot, yet the soldier refered to him and English.
>>
>> >>> AFAIK England and Scotland are distinct. =A0Is it American
>> >>> to equate England with Scotland.
>>
>> >>Yes, it would be fairly common I'd say. And to think, they would get up=
>set
>> >>if we considered Canada to be part of the US! :-)
>>
>> >I think up until relatively recently England was used to denote the
>> >whole of Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). So it would be
>> >natural for someone to refer to someone from Great Britain as an
>> >Englishman. Also explains that even today some Americans are completely
>> >bamboozled when you say you are from Wales or Scotland.
>>
>> >Graham
>>
>> Americans are still shocked by Asian with British accents.
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>> Member - Liberal International =A0This is doc...@nl2k.ab.ca
>> Ici doc...@nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising!
>> Never Satan President Republic!
>> The fool says in his heart, "There is no God". They are corrupt, and thei=
>r ways are vile; there is no one who does good. - Ps 53:1
>
>They haven't got over their House TV doctor Hugh Laurie haveing an
>English accent!
<VBG>
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Ici doctor@nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Beware Anti-Christ rising!
Never Satan President Republic!
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God". They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good. - Ps 53:1