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Thread #142561   Message #3287443
Posted By: Backwoodsman
09-Jan-12 - 06:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: corpse found on the queen's estate
Subject: RE: BS: corpse found on the queen's estate
"It is possibly a difference between UK and US sensitivities- I wouldn't like to think it is a premeditated slur. In the US when someone is found dead - through unknown means and at unknown hands - we tend to call it a 'body' rather than a 'corpse.' "

On a point of order, Ebbie, I think that Olive is irish (or of Irish descent) and possibly resident in Canada, and therefore probably not subject to 'UK sensitivities'.

And, like you, we in the UK tend to refer to a 'body', rather than a 'corpse', in circumstances such as these.

And finally yes, some of the comments above are insensitive and tasteless to say the least. I don't care what others think of, or say about, Her Majesty, and I very much doubt if she cares either, but the death of anyone, let alone a young and vulnerable girl, in what appear to be tragic circumstances is not, IMHO, a cause for frivolity or jollification.