On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:38:17 +0000, blake murphy wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:07:11 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:
>
>> Horry > wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:03:01 +1300, bob wrote:
>>
>>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:55:34 +0100, (Victor Sack)
>>>> shouted from the highest rooftop:
>>
>>>>>A few handy hints: a kiwi is a bird, the little thing in your grocery
>>>>>store is called a kiwi fruit.
>>>>
>>>> Correction: a kiwi is not only a flightless, two legged bird native
>>>> to New Zealand, it is also the name used for a flightless, two legged
>>>> human inhabitant of New Zealand.
>>
>>>They're Kiwis, not kiwis.
>>
>> So is a Kiwi a New Zealander of European descent, or any New Zealander?
>>
>> (And is it in fact capitalized? Usually one does not capitalize brit.)
>>
>> Steve
>
> i think in australia and n.z., 'brit' is usually spelled 'pommy
> *******.'

Unless the Brit in question happens to be Welsh, Northern Irish, or a
Scot

(Or female, I suppose.)