Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

On Wed, 21 May 2008 07:15:59 -0700, artyw2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 21, 10:05 am, Peter Boulding <p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:44:57 -0500, dilbert firestorm
>> <scan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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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.
> 
> Albion, Michigan is, from what I hear, a rather nasty little town.
> Whether it is perfidious is another question though.

Albion, California, is a wonderful, beautiful north coast town, near 
Mendocino.