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<p>[QUOTE="Marie Forjan, post: 3397512, member: 147"]It's very easy to fall into lumping different countries together, also easy to say <i>what's the big deal</i> when a mistake is made about a symbol when the subject is unfamiliar the the speaker. We all do it at some time I am sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was telling my SIL about a trip I had taken to Ireland, I then told her DH and I want to take a trip to Scotland. Her reply was "Why go there, Ireland and Scotland are the same thing."</p><p><br /></p><p>After I stopped looking at her like she grew a second head I pointed out I could say the same thing about Austria and Hungary (DH's family came from Austria to the US in 1950). Then she got it, but of course she wouldn't admit to me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marie Forjan, post: 3397512, member: 147"]It's very easy to fall into lumping different countries together, also easy to say [I]what's the big deal[/I] when a mistake is made about a symbol when the subject is unfamiliar the the speaker. We all do it at some time I am sure. I was telling my SIL about a trip I had taken to Ireland, I then told her DH and I want to take a trip to Scotland. Her reply was "Why go there, Ireland and Scotland are the same thing." After I stopped looking at her like she grew a second head I pointed out I could say the same thing about Austria and Hungary (DH's family came from Austria to the US in 1950). Then she got it, but of course she wouldn't admit to me ;)[/QUOTE]
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