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Kyurkchiyski Posted 13 years ago
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Hello,
Could anybody tell me what does the sentence bellow mean?
Today the English makes up more than 80% of the UK’s population.
Thanks in advance.
  

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Today the English make up more than 80% of the UK’s population. It means 80% of the UK's population consists of English people. The remaining 20% are foreigners.

— Elanguest

  • Today the English make up more than 80% of the UK’s population.
  • It means 80% of the UK's population consists of English people.
  • The remaining 20% are foreigners.
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Today the English make up more than 80% of the UK’s population.

It means 80% of the UK's population consists of English people. The remaining 20% are foreigners.
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ElanguestThe remaining 20% are foreigners.
That's interesting. Do you consider Scots, Welsh and Irish to be foreigners?
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I don't think that the Scots or the Welsh, or even the Northern Irish, would be happy to be called 'foreigners'.
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I don't know. I'm not English. Emotion: smile
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But they're not happy to be called English either. Emotion: wink
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Use 'British', not 'English'.

Clive
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The original text was drawing the difference between the English and the non-English, not only the English and the non-English British. In that case, would it be best just to use the term non-English?
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Maybe.
Such matters can get a bit tricky.

Can you provide some more context?
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