Pip - I disagree with your definition above

Evidently, because it nails you as the racist you undoubtedly are. Thus, the only place you are not a racist is in your head, and what a place that must be! Remember, it was you who said England was a more English place 50 years ago - only a racist would believe that, Wavy.

if I'd repeadedly described a recorder made in Japan as an "Engrish frute" (IB - who just called me "racist" and "bigoted" again) what would have happened? I.e., some of you clearly DON'T play each ball on its merrits, sadly.

Engrish is a cultural & linguistic phenomenon with various books & websites (and even a WIKI page) devoted to it. It is the incongruity of you calling your Japanese plastic recorder an English Flute which gave rise to Don's choice piece of twisting. Given that you Love the world Being Multi-Cultural it is supremely ironic you would choose to play such an instrument in the first place, being mass-manufactured in a country whose own indigenous and traditional musics are about as far from the strictures of Western Art Music embodied in the recorder as you could wish to get. It is also hypocritical in the extreme when for the same price (or a little more) you could have bought yourself an English penny-whistle of exquisite craftsmanship (one by Dave Shaw of Durham for example) more suited to your professed aims and interests in English folk music which is a complete anathema to the recorder and the music for which it was invented, and, indeed, revived.