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Subject: Re: Food Prices
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Am 31.05.2025 um 14:18 schrieb Roger Merriman:
> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 5/30/2025 8:43 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>
>>> Over here we don't much distinguish (England, Britain, GB and UK)
>>> although we probably ought to.
>>
>> After I was gently chided by a British friend, I did my best to learn
>> what each of those terms meant. It's still confusing.
> 
> To be honest number of British use them interchangeably and wouldn’t know
> the differences. And some areas are less in the public eye so folks
> knowledge is lacking.
> 
> I remember having a conversation with a colleague who was from Ugandan
> originally who was going though citizenship and that folks knowledge of
> Ugandan so I asked her to tell me about the Brecon Beacons or the Welsh
> Valleys, or maybe the Welsh knot? To her credit she accepted that despite
> living only 2hrs away she had no idea of Wales which as she said was tad
> embarrassing.

In university, I shared an apartment with a guy whose granma was from 
Llandeilo, this was enough to put the valleys and the Brecon Beacons as 
names onto my mental map of the UK despite living on the other end of 
the country ;-)