Standards, however, are a type of flag used for personal identification and will only carry the coat of arms of its owner, such as the Royal Standard in the UK or the personal standard of any armiger. Hence, a standard is a type of flag but a flag isn't necessarily a standard.

2011年12月17日 · A simple way to understand it, is to compare the UK to the USA. The USA is a country made up of states. Each state, with a different name. People can be New Yorkers or Californians and they are Americans. However, not all Americans are New Yorkers or Californians. For the UK, replace the word states, with the words "home nations".

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2011年11月25日 · Furthermore, flags usually carry representative symbols or colours (e.g., chequered flag), whereas banners generally carry written messages (e.g., Happy Birthday Joe!) On this basis few English speakers would refer to, say, the Union Jack as a banner. Likewise, Happy Birthday Joe! would not be called a flag.

2011年6月8日 · Inside the USA, in business contexts, "(310) 555-1212" is fairly standard. However, it's not very computer-friendly; also, due to area code overlays in a growing number of areas of the US, you must often dial a 1 before the area code in any case, so "1-310-555-1212" is becoming fairly common (on the business cards of people who are more practical than formal, …

2015年10月30日 · A distant memory and first instinct is telling me that it's because the original people sent to colonise Australia from the UK were convicts. From looking online I found the abbreviation pom which is 'prisoner of (his) majesty'. it is ironic that pom is applied to 'people who come from the UK' and not to Australians themselves.

This is a difficult question to answer because so many of the terms are vague. Even the term "English" is mutable, as there are many dialects and variants used regionally which are quite distinct from one another, with their own grammatical quirks and entirely unique vocabularies.

2015年6月19日 · Using the google on books finds a "down" usage from 1951. It took Wilson Follett and Jacques Barzun fifteen years to contemne this phrase in their *Modern American Usage: A Guide" in 1966, saying "Many unschooled in the lore of battle hold an odd idea of forts.

2015年12月30日 · In many languages, formation of diminutives by adding suffixes is a productive part of the language. Many languages apply a grammatical diminutive to nouns, a few—including Dutch, Italian and Russ...

2011年6月8日 · In the UK we have another saying in the Same vein "Does Judith Chalmers own a passport?" Of course being the host of a travel program then answer again must be yes. My friends and I took the mash-up one step further to say: "Does Judith Chalmers Sh** on the Pope" –