French block airlift of British troops to Basra

Stephen Harding wrote in message ...
Brian Sharrock wrote:

From your side of the Atlantic, I suppose everybody over the
horizon seems to be 'Euro', but to me, a Briton, the idea that
there'' some kind of "Euro spin" over the rebellion of some British
colonists funded by the French Kingdom in the furtherance of a
republic is laughable. I know it's probalby hard to examine the

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.

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.

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Stephen Harding wrote in message
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Brian Sharrock wrote:

From your side of the Atlantic, I suppose everybody over the
horizon seems to be 'Euro', but to me, a Briton, the idea that
there'' some kind of "Euro spin" over the rebellion of some British
colonists funded by the French Kingdom in the furtherance of a
republic is laughable. I know it's probalby hard to examine the

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.

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.

Once again, although your words imply an acceptance of
the hypothesis that the regrettable conflict in the North American
colonies _was_ a civil war between essentially British participants -
until the overt involvement of French arms and funding - 'we'
do not normally refer to that rebellion in the colonies as a
British Civil War. [The 'British' civil war, that is a war involving
all of the nations comprising 'Britain , fought on the soil of Ireland
is considered to have reached an apex (or nadir) at the Battle of
the Boyne where a different bunch of Frenchies, and sundry Hollanders,
seemed to have been involved. I'm not sure of the attitude of the
contemporary colonists in North America to these ,presumably, far-off
events.
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]

--

Brian

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

"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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Since you mention it, does British English actually support the word
"adjectival"?

It seems so; we were forever 'analysing sentences into 'adjectival',
'adverbial' clauses and phrases et. seq. One day I'm sure the
exercises will prove to have been useful as the Teachers spent
so much time on the process.

--

Brian

"Brian Sharrock" wrote in message ...
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Stephen Harding wrote in message
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Brian Sharrock wrote:

From your side of the Atlantic, I suppose everybody over the
horizon seems to be 'Euro', but to me, a Briton, the idea that
there'' some kind of "Euro spin" over the rebellion of some British
colonists funded by the French Kingdom in the furtherance of a
republic is laughable. I know it's probalby hard to examine the

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.

Well, I have to. Since the only thing I've ever refused
to do even more than have my local skyscrapers knocked
down by Middle Easters is to take spelling lessons from moron
Britons. If you get a chance you can relay the message
for me to King James via King Louis XIV, Henry VIII,
and Napolean that they were all more morons
than any of the King Georges.

"Brian Sharrock" wrote in message ...
"ZZBunker" wrote in message
om...
Stephen Harding wrote in message
...
Brian Sharrock wrote:

From your side of the Atlantic, I suppose everybody over the
horizon seems to be 'Euro', but to me, a Briton, the idea that
there'' some kind of "Euro spin" over the rebellion of some British
colonists funded by the French Kingdom in the furtherance of a
republic is laughable. I know it's probalby hard to examine the

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.

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.

Once again, although your words imply an acceptance of
the hypothesis that the regrettable conflict in the North American
colonies _was_ a civil war between essentially British participants -

Nobody ever said if was a conflict between British participants.
Since if you idiots didn't know, by that time the
U.S. Consitution was already in place. And we weren't waiting
around for something as stupid as a Euro-Commie-NAZI-constitution
to be written by idiots with an Einstein, a
few Swiss chocolate clocks, some Belgium courts,
German music, and Chinese medical supplies.

until the overt involvement of French arms and funding - 'we'
do not normally refer to that rebellion in the colonies as a
British Civil War.

We know. Since the only thing Britian does call
a British Civil War has something to do with
a worn out institution called Parliament.


[The 'British' civil war, that is a war involving
all of the nations comprising 'Britain , fought on the soil of Ireland
is considered to have reached an apex (or nadir) at the Battle of
the Boyne where a different bunch of Frenchies, and sundry Hollanders,
seemed to have been involved. I'm not sure of the attitude of the
contemporary colonists in North America to these ,presumably, far-off
events.

That's quite impossible, since Ireland has never even had an army
to have a battle against.