I mentioned "English citizen" only in an informal sense. I probably meant "someone who has lived or lives in England," as I do not know if "digestive" is used in a similar fashion in all of the British empire (i.e., Scotland, Wales, ....). (If I am using "British empire" improperly as a synonym for "United Kingdom," no doubt list members will correct me.)
BTW, the package that was labeled "digestive" has a description of "wheaten biscuits, half covered with real milk chocolate." In the interest of science, I opened the package and tried them. Very much like animal crackers with chocolate frosting. Jim At 05:01 AM 11/27/2001 -0800, Bill Potts wrote: >Stephen Gallagher wrote: > >P.S. There is no such thing as an English citizen. >People from the UK are British citizens (not British >Subjects, by the way), as are people from Scotland, >Wales, and Northern Ireland. > >You're both right and wrong. > >Regarding legal status, it's British citizen. However, citizen isn't >exclusively a legal term and has a total of 10 definitions (OED). > >in the more general sense (and, in fact, the primary one), one can be an >English citizen, a citizen of London, a citizen of New York, and so on. > >I always look on myself as a citizen of the world, although legally I'm both >a British and a Canadian citizen. > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
