On 3/16/06, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:

> >I don't really think of the UK as an
> >English-speaking country.  :-)
>
> Oh dear, I wonder where the Americans got their English from then ;)))))

It certainly wasn't from you damned furriners!   :)  :)  :)

> I do notice that some web sites have both US and UK flags for switching to
> English. I guess this shows how country-centric we can sometimes get (I
> don't mean this in a derogatory manner).

I've seen a US/UK flag combination on a website for "English".  It was
a flag shape, divided diagonally from bottom left to top right.  The
"upper-left" triangle was the US flag, the "lower-right" triangle was the
Union Jack.

Maybe that would help?

Bill

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