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Re: Citizen - adjective for Nationality?
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Davi Leal |
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Re: Citizen - adjective for Nationality? |
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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:22:09 +0100 |
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Chris McGinlay wrote:
> For example, my nationality is British in the sense that I am a British
> person. I think that the use of 'Briton' in this context may be erroneous
> although I stress I am not a grammar expert - just a hunch that the list
> should use the adjectives:
> http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-5000500.htm
Other cases where the 'Citizen' and 'Adjective' columns keep different values:
'Briton' 'British'
'Dane' 'Danish'
'Pole' 'Polish'
'Spaniard' 'Spanish'
As Chris reports, it seems we must use the 'Adjective' column of such table.
If nobody disagree I will update it to use the 'Adjective' one.