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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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On 02/10/2017 15:43, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:29:09 +0100, Max Demian
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On 02/10/2017 11:12, whisky-dave wrote:


Probbaly not, otherwise such things as tennis balls, footballs...
and what about car wheels they'd just roll away when you tried to fit
them totally stupid idea they should have done what the Egyptians did
and make them pyrimids so they didn't roll away when being fitted.

Or the square wheels used by the Britons in Carry on Cleo.


How come it's America -- Americans, but Britain -- Britons, and Canada --
Canadians?
It should be Britains and Canadans. I always say they live in Canadia to
annoy them.


There aren't any Britons, except in newspapers and the past, woad painted
kind.

There isn't a word for an inhabitant of Britain. Or the UK for that
matter.


Corse there are, they are poms, usually whingeing poms.