On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Roger Traviss wrote:

Conversely, there are cases where post-colonial guilt and PC willy-waving
mean Britons use "local" names which the natives might not themselves use.

But at least it's reasonably close to the Spanish, unlike "bowkay" and
"larngeray" for certain French words, as I've mentioned somewhere.

Anyone mentioned Bombardier yet? (being from Quebec, the train and plane
manufacturer is not pronounced like the beer)

Bom-BAR-d'se-ay. That's how it's pronounced in Quebec.

And speaking of post-colonial guilt why do Brits insist on calling North
America "America" and ****ing off the Canadians, Mexicans, the people of
the Caribbean Islands etc., by calling us all "Americans"?

America and Americans refers ONLY to the peoples of the U.S. of A. The
continent is correctly called North America, no matter what you may think.

"But don't blame the Canadians!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieT_lf9wK28

tom

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