Re: Flag of England

>From: Fior Avant <chiph@...>
>Subject: Flag of England
>Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:07:21 +0100
>
>English certainly is the World's language today but it is not seen as
>Britain, herself. We ought to remember that the whole world speaks english
>today, and so, the "british identity" got a bit lost in that. Now people
>don't see english related to UK anymore but US, Canada, NZ, AU and all
>colonies of the former British Empire.
Many foreign English-speakers, including me, also feel that colloquial
British English can be the most difficult one to understand. I have a much
better time understanding broken English than colloquial English from some
God-knows-what-shire ;) with all the vowels askew, no rhotic, and glottal
stops replacing almost any stop.

Oskar
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