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   From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, mark lewis!   
   I read your message from 12.05.2014 14:13   
      
     ak>>  Well.... Rowling is a British, so, if she writes about   
     ak>> pants   
     ml>   
     ml>    Rowling is British [...]   
     ml> OR   
     ml>    Rowling is a Brit [...]   
      
   Yeah, "a British" is wrong.   
      
   PS: Although it is strange a bit. In plural it should be Brits, but    
   Brits are Celtic tribes that inhabited England before it was conquered    
   by Anglo-Saxon tribes.   
   Probably, it is better to say in the way we speak of the French:   
   _the French_ are the people of the French nationality, but there is a    
   Frenchman and a Frenchwoman. So, in the UK we have the British, a    
   British man, a British woman.   
      
   PPS: Also I heard of a Briton.   
      
   Bye, mark!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   fido7.english-tutor 2014   
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