Mainland England/WWI

[bleckybecs]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> 
> Catlady wrote:
> 
> > << So next time I was stuck in an airport with my plane delayed
> > (fairly normal as I'm not from mainland England, but I'm at 
> university
> > on the mainland) >>
> > 
> > *sympathetic shudder* at delayed planes being normal. Btw, as a
> > USAmerican, I'm not accustomed to the phrase 'mainland England'. 
> 
> Yeah, I was interested in that one.  My take is: not Scotland, 
Wales 
> or Northern Ireland because one would just say 'England'; not the 
> Channel Islands or Isle of Man for the same reason since although 
> they are not normally regarded as countries they are not part of 
> England; not Isle of Wight (probably) or a lesser inshore island, 
> because one wouldn't usually fly (though perhaps to the north of 
> England?); that leaves the Isles of Scilly, I think.  Fog, I bet, 
> delays the planes.
> 
To clear up, I'm from the Isle Of Man, but I HATE boats, so I tend 
to take the plane, which is not at all unusual. People from the Isle 
Of Man tend to refer to England as 'the mainland', whereas I've 
discovered that people in England tend to call the rest of 
Europe 'the mainland'.

Becky