Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:44:57 -0500, dilbert firestorm
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>>>> I'm open to suggestions for what us American-English-speaking 
>>>> people can call the United Kingdom.

>>>Limeyland.

>> Perfidious Albion. 

>um, is that a slurry slur?

It is indeed, although wholly justified in the eyes of many; it's a
hostile
epithet coined and popularised by the French ("Perfide Albion"), but also
employed and enjoyed by the Argentineans (on account of our refusal to
give
up the Malvinas), the Italians ("Perfida Albione") The Spanish ("Pérfida
Albión") and many others. 

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