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Replying to @mcclure111 @Pinboard
A gratifying response ;-) Canada too, eh?
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Replying to @gordonguthrie @Pinboard
Uhhhh Canadian girlfriend is sitting right next to me and she is as baffled by this as i am America/Canada "the estate" refers only ever to the property and legal wishes of a person who has just died. The provisional Texas/Toronto english language consortium is in agreement here
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Replying to @mcclure111 @Pinboard
Not also a big chunk of land owned by a landowner?
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Replying to @gordonguthrie @Pinboard
Americans would understand this usage but not use it. I think Americans would have an intuitive sense that people have "estates" in England but in America people just own land. But if someone dies all the pots and knicknacks in their home are magically instantly "the estate"
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Replying to @mcclure111 @Pinboard
*cough* Scotland *cough* not that I'm a mad nationalist Narrator: he was indeed a mad nationalist ;-)
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Replying to @gordonguthrie @mcclure111
I like that Scotland has its own special FunBuxx, even though you don't get to put your own queen on them
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Replying to @Pinboard @gordonguthrie
i like how canada ISN'T part of any notion of britain, but still has the british queen on their money my girlfriend had to keep re-explaining this to me for a long time
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her explanation is that she is not subject to the queen of england, it's just that it HAPPENS the queen of england is the same person as the queen of canada
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Replying to @mcclure111 @Pinboard
TBF they only got control of their constitution from Westminster in 1985
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At least they wrote theirs down!
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