Re: Reading Dawkins ... was "Scrump"

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On 02 Oct 2008, Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote

On Oct 2, 5:52 pm, Chuck Riggs <chri...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:57:04 -0700, Hatunen <hatu...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Sure. I don't think most people in the UK think of members of
the House of Lords as being MPs.

I'm not British, but I doubt that.

Don't doubt it. MP refers to the Commons only.

Exactly: "Member of Parliament" refers to a member of the Commons
only.

But even in everyday usage, I don't think "Parliament" refers only to
the Commons.

Shirley this is the same discussion beginning chessplayers have when they
discover that "chess man" != "chess piece"....r


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