Re: So it is true...


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

> Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:
>>
>> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> >
>> > AIUI, the Queen has subjects while the rest of the world has citizens.
>>
>> Yet my British passport refers to me as a citizen.
>
> When did the usage change?

Don't know about him, but my 1963 and 1973 passports call me "Australian
citizen and a British subject", but by 1979 it had become simply "Australian
citizen".

> Perhaps it has to do with the demise of the Empire.

The British Empire formally became the Commonwealth of Nations in 1931.

John.


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