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hollerith
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Craig Murray will surrender himself for prison
Ah. Americans use "state" to mean one of the 50 provinces of the US, leaving the word unavailable for what Brits use it for.
zarzavat
on July 30, 2021
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What about the state department?
hollerith
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That is our term for what the Brits call the Foreign Office.
CRConrad
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Yes. I think the GP's point was that this shows how US usage also, still, to some extent reflects that of the rest of the world: Your State Department is called that because it is the organ that deals with other sovereign states.
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