Re: English?


"linxlvr" <linxlvr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.08.27.00.24.34.916450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:28:45 -0700, stonej wrote:


note.boy wrote:
On page 17 of the 2006 edition of North American Coins & Prices Alan
Herbert
writes that James Watt was English and that he invented the steam
engine.

He was Scottish not English, he didn't invent the steam engine but he
did
improve it so that it could actually be put to use powering factories
etc.
Billy

Some people just don't make the distinction. If they are from the same
island they
are "English". :)
And I am sure that is just fine with many of the Irishmen there. :-)
--
dw


And the Welsh. Billy


.

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