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Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. (1) , the British Isles contain a variety of people, and only the people of England call themselves,English. The others (2) to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, (3) the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed at being (4) as "English". Even in England there are many differences in (5) character and speech. The chief (6) is between southern England and northern England. South of a line going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually (7) by toreign students, (8) there are local variations.
Further north, regional (9) is usually "broader" than that of southern Britain. Northerners are (10) to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more (11) . They are openhearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them (12) . Northerners generally have hearty (13) : the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous (14) at meal times. In accent and character the people of the Midlands (15) a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman.
In Scotland the sound (16) by the letter " R" is generally a strong sound, and " R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be (17) in southern English, The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, (18) inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently (19) as being more " fiery" than the English. They are of a race that is quite (20) from the English.

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