Brian Sharrock wrote:

"ZZBunker" wrote in message

But, as fate would have it Briton has always found that laughable,
which is why they're about the only nation left on Earth
that even studies the American Revolution.

Please tell your programmers that although they've
'got' the parsing part of whatever is driving you to
auto-respond;-
_Briton_ is not a nation but an adjectival word meaning
a person from Britain.

Since you mention it, does British English actually support the word
"adjectival"?

While if you ask most Americans what the US's big war was,
it would be the US Civil War, not the British Civil War.

[...]

The colonists seemed to have gone with the flow and not exhibited
any desire to retain their presumed allegiances to the Stuart Monarchs
that had granted them charters]

Well ancestors on my fathers side of the family "went with the flow"
to Virginia after Charles lost his head.

Cromwell didn't seem too well disposed towards loyalists any more
than American revolutionaries it would seem.


SMH