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  • Why do English people do that?
  • thegeneralist
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    Ae Forest, just over the border in Scotland.

    Why would someone write that in a UK magazine?

    matt_outandabout
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    Because it is a fact. 😉

    bruneep
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    dandax1990
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    Why wouldn’t they? It’s just over the Scottish border.

    Junkyard
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    for the same reason they go to Europe?

    bruneep
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    Why wouldn’t they? It’s just over the Scottish border.

    not for me its not 🙄

    Jamie
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    Is this a trick question?

    scotroutes
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    Not for 9% of the population of the UK it isn’t

    Pook
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    To let people who may want to go there know where it is. Clever innit, this informative journalism?

    felt
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    And the alternative would be ‘in Southern Scotland, near the border with England’?

    Does it make such a huge difference?

    scotroutes
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    Well – your statement is accurate for the whole readership of the magazine, the original isn’t.

    IanMunro
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    Why would someone write that in a UK magazine?

    Well it’s factually correct for 83% of the UK. So it’s probably more correct than most things in the media 😀

    scaredypants
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    If they said “just over the border” you wouldn’t know which one

    If they said “just over the Scottish border” it could be in England

    If they said “just in Scotland” some touchy woad-bedaubed and kilted barbarian would take offence at the possibility that it meant “merely in Scotland”

    Can’t win really 😉

    scotroutes
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    😆

    ernie_lynch
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    Well obviously it should have said “just inside the Scottish border”. What were they thinking ?

    Junkyard
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    Is this a trick question?

    Only for the english

    Pook
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    Wait a year and it’ll have to say ‘just over the frontier’

    MSP
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    It is accurate from the perspective of the writer.

    felt
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    felt » And the alternative would be ‘in Southern Scotland, near the border with England’?
    Does it make such a huge difference?
    Well – your statement is accurate for the whole readership of the magazine, the original isn’t.

    Damn, I’m in the wrong job 😆

    joolsburger
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    Really? Is this is a thing now?

    matt_outandabout
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    The OP earlier.

    IanMunro
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    Article should have just said –
    AE forest, just around 55° 14? 0? N, 3° 35? 0? W

    codybrennan
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    Why not: “…in Dumfries and Galloway”- ?

    joolsburger
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    Why do English people do what, write factually accurate articles?

    ernie_lynch
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    Why not: “…in Dumfries and Galloway”- ?

    I don’t know where Dumfries and Galloway is. Is it just over the border in Scotland ?

    matt_outandabout
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    No, it is just inside the English border.

    codybrennan
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    Ernie- that was quite funny.

    vorlich
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    How do you know they’re English?

    bruneep
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    no, just over the border is Carlisle.

    Drac
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    no, just over the border is Carlisle.

    I thought it was Berwick.

    matt_outandabout
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    Yes, but Carlisle used to be in Scotland.

    kcal
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    Berwick is bi-directional is it not? or almost…

    Drac
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    Yes, but Carlisle used to be in Scotland.

    I thought it was Berwick.

    scotroutes
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    Depends if you’re Russian

    matt_outandabout
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    Who owns the bit between the ‘Welcome to Scotland’ and ‘Welcome to England’ signs? Youngest_oab suggest it *must* be Wales.

    thegeneralist
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    How do you know they’re English?

    um,um, oh never mind

    Junkyard
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    because they show the same level of stupidity as you 😉

    Drac
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    Depends if you’re Russian

    They’re friends again now.

    thegeneralist
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    Yes, but Carlisle used to be in Scotland.
    I thought it was Berwick.

    Carlisle used to be Berwick?

    Northwind
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    “30 minutes north of the scottish border” would be just fine. Since there is only one scottish border.

    Saying it’s in D&G won’t work for ignerant suvverners, these are the people who call everything above the watford gap “the north” after all.

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