Hi Azizi, glad to offer this to you.

Bristol is in Gloucestershire and Birmingham in Warwickshire, and that's the way we'd put it here in the UK. London may be the only british city not in a county.

England,Wales and Scotland make up Britain. Add N.Ireland, and you have Great Britain. Add a few VITAL odds and sods and you have the United Kingdom. So the Uk Prime Minister, e.g., is technically in error talking about 'our country' when he should be saying 'our kingdon'.

Add the Republic of Ireland and you have The British Isles.

We say Norwich in Norfolk, rather than Norwich, Norfolk, except on envelopes. Ditto London, England.

There are a large number of areas,boroughs and suburbs in London - Notting Hill, Golders Green, Wandsworth, East Ham, Wanstead, Wimbledon etc.etc. So after the road/street name, you might have Wandsworth,London (post code, like SE2 5PP).

The name Wandsworth gave rise to a sweet joke about a semi-literate announcing he's going to read Daffodils by William Wandsworth.

'Poms' is meant varyingly nicely except when the ire of the Aussies is up and we become 'wingeing Poms',i.e. complaining Brits. IMO, a correct character identification. A lot of Brits will complain to ANYBODY EXCEPT anyone who can do anything about it. Cos they think nothing will result from doing that.




I'd like to know the origin of 'yonks', as in, 'That was yonks ago'.

I know only that it was not in GB by 1968.






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