To think that only English posters would do this?

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Now and again a thread appears with questions about "the north east" or "the south west" etc,

From my observations of life I've never seen a Welsh, Scot or N Irish person talk like this ie assume that everyone knows they are talking about their home country.

AIBU to think that English people are a bit presumptious.

My mate's partner is from way up in Caithness.

He refers to the point in his life when he moved to Fife as when he moved 'down south'.

:o

North lincolnshire is a completely different county to lincolnshire, a fact most people don't seem to be aware of as you so kindly illustrated. We're not always in the same region as lincolnshire

An ENGLISH website? mostly from England?

There are large amounts of posters from the rest of the UK, as well as all over the world. Its hardly just ENGLISH.

I always felt it was a British website. (I'm English BTW)

'Tis mainly London and the home counties.

Do they still call it 'the home counties'?

It's because the English are in the majority, by quite a margin. They tend to define the 'norm' with anything pertaining to the other home nations being seen as variations from the norm, in all things, not just geographical appellations.

It's got nothing to do with any inherent English quality of presumption/chauvinism/whatever. It's just a numbers thing. It may be annoying but it is also inevitable.

I mean, I was just coming to terms with the fact that some people seem to live outside of Zone 2, and there were others in the South West or East, you know, South of the River, and now it turns out there's people from all over the UK?! And the WORLD?! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Its predominantly British and we all understand the terminology.

Is it equally presumptuous that in the education topics we commonly refer to Yr1 etc, (with Scots using their own slightly different terminology)? If I go on a US based site I expect to see references to '4th grade', 'East Coast' etc etc. Same deal.

Yes, YABU to think only English posters do it, I am Scottish and living in Scotland and I do it too. My job involves researching information about opportunities UK wide and I always just refer to 'the south-west' 'north-east' etc. I would do it here too, probably have.

Of course in my personal life I say 'somewhere in England', and wave my hand vaguely towards the south and all my friends nod understandingly. Please don't hate me, English folk.

I think the sense of humour on MN is very British, although some of our international posters obviously "get it".

Sorry tyler80....I must buy a new atlas. Are you anywhere near Greater Grimsby!

Grimsby is in north east lincolnshire which is another county again. Where I grew up has been 3 different counties in the last 40 years so can't blame people for not knowing.

bonnieprincebillie

a british website in that it's uk-based. HQ in London, where the founders are from and a majority UK user-base. And yes, i believe the last "census" did reveal that most of us are in England

no-one has said there aren't plenty of non-UK users of the site, but it would be silly to pretend that it isn't, ultimately, a UK site wouldn't it?

British, then not English? Did you read my post? I was specifically talking to someone who said it was an ENGLISH not BRITISH site (although many english people seem to not know the difference, hell up thread someone said Ireland was in the uk!)

I get confused when someone says " the north" as North of the uk is surely Scotland, if someone says the south I would know that was England as, well it's in the south.

don't get stroppy with me!

if you read my post you would also see that I pointed out that yes, most users are in fact ENGLISH.

That would be me. I apologise. I thought (northern) ireland formed part of great britain.

It doesn't? I never knew that. I honestly thought it did.

So great britain is england, scotland and wales then? Not northern ireland?

I think the point was that Southern Ireland isn't part of the UK.

Oh, yes, I apologise. A quick google reveals that the official title is in fact The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland.

Sorry for calling it britain.

MadamD - I think you'll find the channel tunnel is in the South East

Oh, will that be it then?

Well, you see, I always think of Ireland as the bit thrown in with the rest of the uk and southern ireland as Eire.