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SubjectRe: Queen mother (of Britain) has died
FromTradeSurplus
Date2002-04-12 20:21 (2002-04-12 20:21)
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Newsgroupsalt.fan.tolkien
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FollowupsJette Goldie (1h & 20m) > TradeSurplus
Jay Random wrote in message <3CB6E610.1030806@bondwine.ca>...

Jay Random
TradeSurplus wrote:

TradeSurplus
Jette Goldie wrote ...

Jette Goldie
Just corrected the header slightly - she wasn't just Queen Mum for England you know, in the same way as her daughter is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, not just England.

TradeSurplus
I never cease to be amazed by how few British people actually know the

name

of their country. Do you want to try another guess at naming the country

of

which England and Scotland are parts? 10 obscuro points to a non-Briton who can do so.

Jay Random
I take it it isn't the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, then?

We have a winner! Seems many scots insist on including the whole of Britain (not just England) in the UK but forget that NI is also a part.

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