05.23.03

Overseas

Posted in Dreaming of England at 4:30 pm by

I’d never stopped to think before about the way the British use the word “overseas” to mean “foreign countries”. I suppose that Carribbeans, Australians and New Zealanders may also use it, but not (for instance) Canadians.

It’s a rather romantic euphemism, now I consider it. “Abroad” (as in “she’s gone abroad”) is similarly coy regarding the actual, physical existence of other nations that insist on being not the UK.

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