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that I could both type faster and remember more.

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I was annoyed that I wasted so much time (twice!) trying to figure out what it wanted for the USA and then the UK. The Scots will be pissed off too.

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I am also not a quick typist - I only got to 69. I kept trying to put spaces in between them! I see Isle of Man is there - as, indeed, is Queen Maud Island!

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Queen Maud Island but not Scotland? I'm afraid the quiz loses any cred it might reasonably have had.

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If they have the UK, it's quite reasonable not to have any of its constituents, surely?

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I'm not being reasonable. I'm being pissed off. There's a difference.

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I mean, in what way does British Antarctic Territory count as a country that Scotland does not, for example?

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Dude, it has Svalbard in there!

Also why Scotland more than Wales, Northern Ireland or indeed England?

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'Cos of course I said Scotland rather than Wales, NI, or England.

Two can play at that game, eh?

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Serious answer = it's not already inside another listed country?

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Depends if you're arguing from common usage, or from some working attempt at a common definition (however ad hoc). Scotland's a "constituent country" of the UK, but that does not in practice make it any more distinct an entity than a US "state", a Canadian province, or a German _Land_. (Arguably, it's indeed less so.) OTOH, dependent territories aren't strictly part of their parent states, but aren't "countries" in common parlance either. Mind you, _unrecognised_ dependent territories is getting a little silly...

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... though since they also list Martinique, etc, which aren't dependent territories, but part of France, I think I'll stop playing Devil's Advocate in their defence, and join the "bah, nonsense!" camp.

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HA!

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I was pissed off at my typing and my spelling memory - how do you spell bokino fasso anyway? Let alone azerbaijan. Only 58, shameful!

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I'm not sure I can spell it either, but I'm fairly sure you're missing a rhotic/non-rhotics-split "r". So you can blame your crazy mixed-up prestige accent, at least in part. :) (Burkino Faso?)

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