From Somewhere North of Scotland

[fiorenza_a]

This tickled my funny bone

Comments

[tinturtle]

Alaska doesn't only get put in a box, but shrunk and put in a box. They don't like it, either. *g*

[fiorenza_a]

Shrunk as well? And Alaska isn't even an island some miles off the coast of its mainland - the maps just aim to shrink the distance of water between the two. Although there is the whole argument of the proportional accuracy of traditional maps, which tend to emphasise the south of England - which is a bit of a political bone of contention as there is quite a bit of resentment about about Westminster-centric politics skewing policies to the needs and interests of the South East of England, even though all four nations (and the odd island) have their own parliaments - and flags. Cornwall (in the peninsular South West of England), when tin was king, think Poldark. also used to have its own parliament - and still has its own flag - and is reviving its language (the last native speakers died out at the end of the Poldark era, with the decline of tin and the rise of the Industrial Revolution). The Cornish for Cornwall is Kernow,

I'd be cross myself if I came from Alaska !

[moth2fic]

The US think UK is all tiny and close together, and haven't a clue about the different regions, countries, or islands. But north of Scotland... I suppose they might have the Orkneys in mind...

[fiorenza_a]

I suspect Lt Col Jack Walker knows exactly where Scotland is, I think it was just the phraseology of BBC reporting, which has taken a nose-dive online recently - littered with basic cultural, linguistic, punctuation and grammatical errors - even to the extent of the Ukrainian for 'Mum' being translated as 'Mom' in one video.

I don't think they check copy written by people who speak other English variants for UK cultural relevance, or at all for grammatical errors - or even punctuation - the position of quotation marks reporting direct speech can leap about before and after the full stop (period?) all over the place, even in the same article.

They desperately need a 'House Style'.