"Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com> wrote > Speaking of the frozen north ... I've
watched an American soap for umpteen
> years and I kinda let it slide when one of the characters made what I
> thought was simply a mistake when he spoke about Canada a few weeks ago.
> I'll be writing to the programme today though because the same character
> made the same comment today so it was NO mistake. I could hardly believe
my
> ears when he said, "I'll gladly pay for your one way ticket back to the
> PROVINCE of OTTAWA." !! Jeesh! Really! Don't they research these things?

Well, they're Merkans, aren't they? As Ambrose Bierce put it, "War is God's
way of teaching Americans geography." They haven't been at war with Canada
for donkey's ages.

Harry C