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Subject: Re: [S-I] SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 3, Issue 35
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:28:16 +0000


Dear Dr. Montgomery,

>That said, an astounding number of Americans cannot
> state the different between "British" and "English,"

Agreed! Could you lead us in an explanation? Then a few of us will be educated on the difference.

Or British/English cousins -- feel free to pipe up (politely).......
Otherwise if we start to brawl, someone'll call the police and we'll all end up in the Clink. (How many of you know what the Clink was or why we got this phrase in English?).

Linda Merle (SI Admin)

-------------- Original message --------------
From: Montgomery Michael <>

> Dear All
>
> While I think that the Library of Congress' idea to
> subsume "Scottish literature" under "English
> literature" was dumb and parcohial, it was rather
> strange to see this story simply reprinted in the
> March 2008 issue of _The Ulster-Scot_. This is
> because the LOC bent to the outrage in December and
> officially withdrew the proposal in January, so it
> should have been pretty old news by the time the paper
> went to press in mid-March. Normal journalistic
> practice would have cited the author or source of the
> story reprinted in _The Ulster-Scot_; it was run on
> the internet by the BBC on December 22.
>
> That said, an astounding number of Americans cannot
> state the different between "British" and "English,"
> and American journalists very regularly use the terms
> interchangeably. So it's not surprising that the LOC
> sleepwalked into their misguided decision.
>
> Michael Montgomery
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:33:56 EDT
> > From:
> > Subject: [S-I] Library of Congress can't tell the
> > difference between "British" and "English"
> > To:
> >
> > Some of you may be interested in reading the article
> > at the bottom of this
> > page in the recent issue of The Ulster-Scot.
> >
> >
> _http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/sitefiles/resources/March%2008-PG15.pdf_
> >
> (http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/sitefiles/resources/March%2008-PG15.pdf)
> >
> > Katherine
>
>
>
>
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