Sleighing..!!!

[nq:1]Does Santa ride in a sleigh or on a sleigh?[/nq]
No. He doesn't exist. (Didn't they tell you? Sorry!) So he also sleeps with his whiskers neither under nor over the sheet.

As to the broader question, I suspect no one would notice much either way, there's no great point at stake. Jingle Bells, for what that's worth, would have it "Dashing through the snow/ In a one horse open sle

At 08:30:17 on Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sprocket (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:1]Are you Indian by the way? I'd got the impression you were Italian.[/nq]
The IP address in the headers of his posts resolves to New Delhi.
[nq:2](I wonder why nobody else bit.)[/nq]
[nq:1]It's been very quiet of late.[/nq]
There's little point in posting where the reply is not contentious and one agrees

At 00:28:51 on Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Paul (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed):
[nq:1]Yup. Glad you associated India with N.Delhi. There have been men who concluded I lived in an appache settlement when informed I was an Indian! It's funny. In India we consider the American Indian as a "Red Indian".[/nq]
The acceptable term, in US and UK English, is "Native American"; "Red Indian" is now s

[nq:1]The acceptable term, in US and UK English, is "Native American"; "Red Indian" is now seen as offensive.[/nq]
As you go on to point out, the term covers every one from an Inuit to a Fuegan. I once proposed Asana (Aboriginal sub-Arctic North Americans) for what used to be called "Red Indians", but it didn't catch on. Pity, it has a nice ethnic sound.
[nq:1]India, Pakistan and Bangledes

No, it's because Pakistan and Bangladesh object to the descriptive phrase "Indian Sub-Continent".

John Briggs

At 13:35:13 on Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed):
[nq:1]Molly Mockford "I'm very sorry to hear it" I'm confused. Why should one be sorry to hear that McDonald's and KFC are fad in India? And why should one look for a counter-balance in the Baaltis in towns and villages of U.K?[/nq]
I don't like to see American corporations trying to take over the world. In par

[nq:1]it's one of the reasons why UK children are obese and sluggish...[/nq]
This may have been discussed before, but whatever happened to British as an adjective meaning 'of or pertaining to the Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles or the United Kingdom'?

Noel

At 23:50:36 on Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Ildhund (Email Removed) wrote in :
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[nq:2]it's one of the reasons why UK children are obese and sluggish...[/nq]
[nq:1]This may have been discussed before, but whatever happened to British as an adjective meaning 'of or pertaining to the Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles or the United Kingdom'?[/nq]
I tend to use UK when counter-b

At 08:20:19 on Thu, 20 Mar 2008, sprocket (Email Removed) wrote in :
[nq:2]I hadn't realised (my comp says I should spell it with a 'z' . Should I?)[/nq]
[nq:1]Turn on UK English spellchecker, or stick to US. The choice is yours.[/nq]
I think it's an Oxford versus Cambridge thing - IIRC, the Oxford style (OED, OUP etc.) inclines towards the -ize formation (particularly where the word i

}So in UK English one is generally safer with -ise unless one wants to }check the etymology - however, some verbs (e.g. prize, capsize) are }never spelt with -ise.
Oh. So I do need to prise your fingers from the keyboard them ?

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