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Originally Posted by aabbcc
"single people"
We say that all over North America and, yeah, it just refers to folks who aren't married. What do you call them in the UK?
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Erm... well... its just that my divorce papers state (in a rather more wordly fashion) that the marriage is finished & that we can re-marry, (& to write a new will - but that's by the by...) but we don't get described as "single people".
To my mind (and I'm quite prepared to admit it's just me!), single people are spinsters & batcherlors; "previously married" are either divorced or widowed - depending what you did to your spouce....
Yeah, just ignore me, it is just me as I'm a "all experiences (good & bad) make me the person I am" and a marriage that produced a couple of children should be seen as just that.
Mind, you guys might think that being a spinster brings up images of old ladies in yellowing wedding dresses a la Miss Haversham....
