05-06-2016, 09:09 AM
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Re: A question?
Hi Dave
personally I don't mind how you address me, I think people get far too 'precious' about that kind of thing. We have all sorts on here
I guess the term 'Brits' covers most of us but there will always be some people everywhere who are not happy whatever they are called 
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05-06-2016, 10:04 AM
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Re: A question?
Originally Posted by Hawkeye
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Call us what you like mate, just don't call us Europeans!
I like to think of myself as British, and English to be more precise.
It's like being an American, and a Floridian to be more precise.
The term 'Yank' - that sounds so offensive to me. I wouldn't use it even in a 'humorous' way.
Nor would I even think of an Australian as being a nation descending from convicts. That is most insulting.
05-06-2016, 10:10 AM
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Re: A question?
http://www.theguardian.com/notesandq...-19306,00.htmlDaveA - you might be interested in the above article.
It'll tell you some of the words we use to describe other Europeans if we are being rude.
I never use them.
Except for 'frogs'
... Oh, and 'krauts'.
05-06-2016, 10:10 AM
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Re: A question?
Originally Posted by DaveA
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Being a new-comer here and a Yank besides, is there a non-offensive way to speak of people from the UK. Are you English, or British, or does it now include Scotch and Welsh? Whenever I'm about to write something that requires "describing'' someone from the UK, is there one word that is used by all and won't offend anyone?Better to ask than offend half of the posters on this board.
I guess we, over here, would be Yanks, Americans, from the US, or in less polite terms, as-----s. All of them would fit - -I believe.
Now that's an insult.
05-06-2016, 10:16 AM
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Re: A question?
I'll sing you one, HoGreen grow the rushes, Ho
What is your one, Ho?
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so.
If you read the words of this song, you should be able to get the tune for it.
It seems that from this little song, we get the word Gringo.
The Mexicans coined it for the British people who were always singing it.
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