(August 23, 2016 at 11:29 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: I mean... People in the USA sometimes casually refer to "the British empire" when they're talking about The Commonwealth of Nations. It's not factually correct but everyone understands they're talking about "the places the UK used to own/currently owns/doesn't own per se but still has the queen as the head of state"
I just tend to think of them as "ex-British Empire colonies" personally. That has some contextual importance in some conversations, such as if you're talking about immigration into The UK. The majority of British immigrants are from "ex-British Empire colonies", so it has historical and contextual meaning.
And I say that being born here to a family who come from one such place, so that's how I'd describe it.
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