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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Food Prices
Date: 31 May 2025 12:18:43 GMT
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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.
> 
> And I have Irish friends and American friends of Irish heritage who 
> fervently hope to make all of Ireland "A Nation Once Again." If they 
> succeed, I suppose one of those terms will be outmoded.
> 
Not impossible as the younger generations are less partisan.

Roger Merriman