azhu
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- Apr 8, 2011
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Britain was perhaps never the "workshop of the world," but her industrial dominance was such in the middle of the nineteenth century that the phrase is legitimate.
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At first I thought the writer wants to say that Britain was not "workshop of the world"; but later the writer says that the phrase "workshop of the world" is legitimate?......like, reasonable?
So what does the writer want to say?:-(
Britain was perhaps never the "workshop of the world," but her industrial dominance was such in the middle of the nineteenth century that the phrase is legitimate.
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At first I thought the writer wants to say that Britain was not "workshop of the world"; but later the writer says that the phrase "workshop of the world" is legitimate?......like, reasonable?
So what does the writer want to say?:-(