[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[Marion Thompson]

Here I think we have, on the one hand, 'Brits' being used to mean 
loosely the English,'them over there', but on the other more-accurate 
hand,  British includes the Scots who are most definitely not English.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/18/2015 7:37 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> But not English. And quite a number of my Scottish friends refer to the
> English as "Brits"....when they aren't calling them something worse <g>
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Roger Stokes <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net>
> wrote:
>
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Sent: 18/03/2015 14:08:24
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] More Clergy DWI
>>
>>   We had a piper at our church in Tennessee on the occasion of the 300th
>>> anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish bishops,
>>> which I have always privately thought the Scots looked on as another
>>> opportunity to stick it to the Brits.
>>>
>> The Scots are British.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>>