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Old 04-20-2017, 06:38 PM   #262
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8 View Post
There are some "Westminsters" in the U.S., too. Several towns, and a denomination called Westminster Presbyterian Church. Probably some other things, too. Those just showed up in the first couple of pages of the results of a Google search. But I knew that odds were it was in Great Britain somewhere. I didn't see any in Florida.

BTW--many people in the U.S., especially those who have not visited G.B. have a penchant for saying "Westminister. I cringe when people say it, but don't correct them. Now, if I knew that they were about to take a trip over there, that might be different . . . .
The most famous academic Westminster in the US is Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., where Churchill coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" in 1946.

I have never heard an American say "Westminister."
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