almondavon

North British patriot

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@SashSoulsmith @Fantasia1910 @ResEvilDude In gendered languages, the pronouns you use are determined by gender. Romance speakers use m. pronouns for Portugal and f. pronouns for Spain. In English, of course, it's traditional to use f. pronouns for all countries, but this is more of an affectation than a rule of grammar.

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@harrowthefirst1 @wylfcen Maybe Fyrefete (fire lizard)

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@ResEvilDude Both "Vaterland" and "Deutschland" are neuter nouns

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@EpoptesG2_7 @PaleoChristian1 @uncle_deluge "Gaeilge" can refer to any of the Goidelic languages, not just Irish. In other words, it's an exact synonym of "Gaelic".

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@CrimCartier There's no way she named the neighbouring island "Hybern"

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@CoffeelessInOtt @Lamergier2 The English term also refers to any mob execution

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@REPHVIM @Heeehooooo The OED gives only the pronunciation with /l/

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@novemberinrie @cszabla It's sensible and good actually

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@stuarthammond14 Some of those are cheating, since they're modern back-formations from place names (Ore from Orford, Alde from Aldeburgh, etc.). But there are rivers with genuinely Anglo-Saxon names, the most prominent one being the Mersey.

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@GODROX_cs @RembrandtsRoom Idiot

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@EPSTNeyeLAND @REPHVIM @JayBee25101269 @wylfcen What history book says that Anglo-Normans continued to exist as a discrete group into the modern era?

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@ale_moon10 @fermatslibrary It's a complaint that Dickens sent to the editor of the Times after the paper refused to print an advertisement of his

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@PhIavyo @ChristianHeiens @Babygravy9

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@hedgenettle @DrFrancisYoung @Tom_Rowsell Rubbish. Scots is far closer to English than it is to any continental Germanic language.

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@anglopjdst We used to do this in English too. Need to bring it back.

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@Alex_Fairfax06 I find it unlikely that significant numbers of them would actually pack up and leave if bans like these were passed, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong

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@feeshflakes @LinkofSunshine Plenty of republican countries use the title, including America (see the US Marshals)

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