Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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no it can't be used as an encompassing termThere is just no such thing as a British accent. The difference between, say, a Californian and Bostonian accent and between Essex and Glaswegian is incomparable. It drives me up the wall, every time.
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and...Brummie is incomparable to Geordie, yet using English as an encompassing term is somehow valid?
Of course it's an encompassing term, English, Scottish and Welsh are all subsets of it.
Just like Coal mining and Whisky are/were both subsets of British industry.
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Slippery Mick ‏, Sun 21 Mar 2010, 23:37,
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