A quick question on Britspeak

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Prompted by yet another story in which a British character refers to the USA as "The Colonies" without appearing to intend it as sarcasm or an insult.

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Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I know one or two British people who say "The Colonies" to refer to USA, Canada, Australia: basically the English speaking world. It is hard to separate it from sarcasm but I am not sure any is intended.