Dec 17, 2011 · That makes me ethnically English and politically British. Although Great Britain is a geographical term, British describes nationals of the whole of the United Kingdom and Britain …

Mar 25, 2021 · Here's an example of the phrase in actual use. The Florida flew the British flag till she was fired at , when she hauled it down , and ( according to Captain Semmes's account ) …

Feb 7, 2019 · Ah, So the meaning of flag (v) does NOT derive from a metaphor, like I thought, but comes direct from a word in a parent language. Thanks. After some more research, it also …

Oct 7, 2011 · In British use the jack has been since the 17th c. (except under the Commonwealth) a small sized ‘Union Flag’ of the period (Union Jack), which has also been, since 1707, …

Dec 1, 2015 · Aside from the offensive meaning, colloquial British English uses the term fag to indicate a cigarette. James has gone outside for a fag In my googling, I thought perhaps this …

Mar 8, 2019 · The problem for me is the lack of pomegranates in South Africa and the early common use of 'Pom' among Afrikaners for the English specifically when they had the term …

Disjunction in the subject formally takes a verb that agrees in the number with whichever element is closest to the verb. This is just as true with neither/nor as it is with either/or. “Neither the …

@PieterGeerkens I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but would say that, in British English, altho' billion used to mean 10^12, we have now almost exclusively adopted the Am usage of 10^9.

May 3, 2017 · 49 I am translating a history context talking about the Cold War and I am stuck with a word for the person in a war who holds the army's flag. This flag is used to show the mates …

The British term half-caste is developed from this usage and means mixed racial origin. Half-caste was used pretty well universally up to the 1990s at least. I've even come across mixed race …