Difference between revisions of "Expatriate"

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This is the correct way to spell the word meaning 'someone who is now living away from their native country'. Such people are not usually <strike>'''ex-patriots</strike>''', which isn't a real word. If it were, it would mean people who used to love their native country, but have stopped doing so.
 
This is the correct way to spell the word meaning 'someone who is now living away from their native country'. Such people are not usually <strike>'''ex-patriots</strike>''', which isn't a real word. If it were, it would mean people who used to love their native country, but have stopped doing so.
  
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Latest revision as of 15:22, 14 September 2007

This is the correct way to spell the word meaning 'someone who is now living away from their native country'. Such people are not usually ex-patriots, which isn't a real word. If it were, it would mean people who used to love their native country, but have stopped doing so.