Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other
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Author Message cosmictanya
Posts : 5355Karma : 211Join date : 2019-08-14 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:56 pm I think Orkney is never plural. Even though they are the Orkney Islands, they’re never ‘the Orkneys’. Just Orkney.
Fangirl Three
Posts : 11088Karma : 385Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:31 am Also the inhabitants are given to saying they're Orcadian, not Scottish.
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Posts : 141016Karma : 1129Join date : 2018-05-02 cosmictanya
Posts : 5355Karma : 211Join date : 2019-08-14 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Wed Nov 29, 2023 2:16 pm On one of the channels, a reporter kept talking about catteries in the context of the Middle East conflict. It made no sense. Only when someone else started talking did it become clear. I pronounce Qataris sort of like this ‘cutAHrays’. Not catteries. Perhaps the solution does lie with catteries. Get all sides into one where they can stroke kittens while discussing their differences.
Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:55 pm
Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:55 pm Barbados and The Bahamas. All the time.
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Posts : 141016Karma : 1129Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:35 pm Butterfield wrote: Cuba and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.
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Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:52 pm
Butterfield
Posts : 17614Karma : 372Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:36 pm Mexico and Egypt.
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
Posts : 42094Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:33 am Ahh, c'mon man. And Costa Coffee.
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Fangirl Three
Posts : 11088Karma : 385Join date : 2018-05-03 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:02 am Tr*mp doesn't know the difference either. He'd just nuke them both.
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Posts : 42094Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:32 am VIDEO
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SiberianPrincess’sMidriff
Posts : 42094Karma : 455Join date : 2021-07-19 Subject: Re: Towns, cities and countries you get mixed up with each other Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:30 am Surry and Suffolk
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