Apologies duly tendered. My bad.
Chris
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Allen Esterson wrote:
> Re WW2 Chris Green wrote:
>   
>> By contrast, England, France, Italy, and the US, lost about
>> a half million each.
>>     
>
> Sorry to bring this up again, and, yes it's trivial, but Chris actually
> means Britain (or the United Kingdom). In this context especially, I don't
> think many Scots, Welsh and Irish would think it trivial, just ask Sean
> Connery. :- )
>
> N.B. Mainland Europeans are even worse than Americans on conflating
> "England" with "Britain".
>
> Allen Esterson
> Former lecturer, Science Department
> Southwark College, London
> http://www.esterson.org
>
>   


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