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Originally Posted by HarryT
Royal Navy, please  . We have a Royal Navy and a Royal Air Force, but a British Army, 'cos that was founded by that nasty Oliver Cromwell who was kind of down on royalty  .
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Lol. Actually I knew that. You have a Royal Marines, too. But I think it's fair enough to choose to employ the term British small-n navy rather than Royal Navy, certainly as a citizen of a republic as opposed to a subject of a kingdom I'm more likely to gravitate to the first.
The British Army error was one of the many in the first pages of
Outlander that caused me to toss that (weighty) book across the room. But then it's the Royal Army Medical Corps at that. Ah, foolish consistency, etc.
ETA: My apologies to Harry, whose post I did not edit (I wouldn't dare!). I fat-fingered the wrong button.