[General] All nouns masculine but the queen?

[konungursvia]

At the Empire Club, we always toast her in this way: "To the Queen of Canada."

 

[5jj]

At the Empire Club, we always toast her in this way: "To the Queen of Canada."

That's interesting. In Britain, the loyal toast is simply "the Queen".

 

[konungursvia]

That's interesting. In britain, the loyal toast is. simply "the Queen".

I guess you Brits know what country you're from, whereas we aren't quite certain here. It's a Western hemisphere thing.

 

[Tdol]

Queen Victoria is dead?
Now I know I'm really out of touch with the world...

Yeah- it happened a couple of years ago, but they kept it out of the papers.

 

[Tdol]

I guess you Brits know what country you're from, whereas we aren't quite certain here. It's a Western hemisphere thing.

Sort of, but then we do have the UK, Great Britain, British, English, Scottish, etc.