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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/07/2014 00:51, Martin
Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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... <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> but looking
into WP showed that in Britain the meaning "</span><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color:
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">refers to the town or city residence of
a member of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility"
title="Nobility" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;
box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">nobility</a> or <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentry" title="Gentry"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box;
text-decoration: none;">gentry</a>, as opposed to their
country seat"</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto;">: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_%28Great_Britain%29">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)</a></span></blockquote>
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Please don't trust wikipedia on British English usage; the word
"townhouse" on its own with no context simply does not have that
connotation to me.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Andy<br>
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