On Feb 7, 8:23*am, Michel Boucher > wrote:
> S Viemeister > wrote :
>
> > Yes, England and Scotland are both on the same island. So is
> > Wales. They're all part of the island of Great Britain - but
> > Scotland isn't part of England, any more than Queensland is
> > part of NSW.
>
> Or any part of Canada is in the US simply because geographically
> challenged people say so.
>

Right -- PEI is much closer to Greenland than to the US. (Tee-hee)

Aussies and Kiwis are used to the opposite confusion, but the distance
between Sydney and Auckland is the same as the distance between
Montreal and Miami.