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inventatech
11-06-2006, 09:02 AM
I am Sandeep from UK and I am here and to learn more about seo and other related things from this great forum.

Thanks :)
Sikky
11-06-2006, 02:02 PM
Hi Sandeep - a warm welcome and enjoy your stay.
Twey
11-06-2006, 02:55 PM
Yo :) Plenty of Britishers here.
mburt
11-08-2006, 06:05 PM
"Yo"... What a fine word to represent the UK :p (yes, sarcasm was noted)
BLiZZaRD
11-09-2006, 09:27 AM
Is "Britishers" a correct term as well?

I know.. dumb Americans.. we make everything too simple.
mwinter
11-09-2006, 11:33 AM
Is "Britishers" a correct term as well?

Heh, no. :) We're "the British" or "Britons".

Mike
Twey
11-09-2006, 01:28 PM
Britisher

n : a native or inhabitant of Great Britain [syn: Briton, Brit]
Britisher \Brit"ish*er\, n.

An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp.
one in the British military or naval service. [Now used
jocosely]
[1913 Webster]I think that commonly-seen form may be Germanic, from "Amerikaner," "Engländer," &c.
mwinter
11-09-2006, 01:57 PM
I think that commonly-seen form may be Germanic, from "Amerikaner," "Engländer," &c.

An archaic form, perhaps. We are die Briten (der Brite, die Britin).

It sounds very much like a non-word to me, the first that I've ever heard of it (not that either means much at all). A look at an older dictionary I have (rarely used because it's falling apart somewhat) describes it as a US term, not a British one.

Mike
Twey
11-09-2006, 02:03 PM
The OED (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/britisher?view=uk) has it as "especially in North America," suggesting that it's now a British word too, but makes no reference to its origin.
mwinter
11-09-2006, 02:21 PM
The OED (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/britisher?view=uk) has it as "especially in North America," suggesting that it's now a British word too, but makes no reference to its origin.
The dictionary I referred to is an Oxford Concise, printed some thirty years ago. Chambers (http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=Britisher&title=21st&sourceid=Mozilla-search) also classifies it as US.

Mike
Twey
11-09-2006, 02:28 PM
You're most likely correct in its origin, then, and it's spread to Britain via Americanization.
BLiZZaRD
11-10-2006, 08:01 AM
We damn Americans just take everything don't we?