Re: sleighing..!!!

At 23:50:36 on Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Ildhund <jnllb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <frs8ve$hmg$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

"Molly Mockford" <nospamnobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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it's one of the reasons why UK children are obese and sluggish...

This may have been discussed before, but whatever happened to British as an
adjective meaning 'of or pertaining to the Britain, Great Britain, the
British Isles or the United Kingdom'?

I tend to use UK when counter-balancing it against US, as we have been doing rather a lot in this group lately :-) (The idea to be to avoid using "American", which is a distinctly imprecise term.) So my use of UK in this particular thread was a carry-over from the interaction with aue.
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