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Operation London Bridge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...
The other comment was downvoted, presumably people thinking it was a joke, but it is called Operation Unicorn too if she's in Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_London_Bridge#Operat...
The article was published on Fri 17 Mar 2017 07.40 GMT when Theresa May was PM: > For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as “London Bridge.” The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “London Bridge is down” on secure lines. Interestingly, the current PM is also a she.
I think we (Brits) now draw with Norway for the most Female PMs (3 each). Of course 2 of these in the UK never won general elections...
0 female president, though.
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> The prime minister will be woken, Totally unrelated but is this correct grammar? I realize I've never seen "woken" without "up", as in "woken up". To avoid using "up" I would've leaned towards some form of awoke, but am not sure I've ever seen something like "she will be awoke" either. Always fun to encounter grammatical edge cases you're unfamiliar with in your native language.
-- getting into some cumbersome and annoying English - tenses and principal are often confusing - awoken is the most correctly - woken is fine - awoke is first person past principal - so you're right "she will be awoke" is grammatically incorrect - https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-3/verbs-types-tense... --
I thought of "awoken" initially, but if I hadn't seen the other wordings before, I don't recall ever seeing the word "awoken" at all! Or if I have seen it before, I second-guessed myself after reading variations of "woke/wake" so much in a short period of time. Thanks for your response
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Congrats, you've mastered copy and paste.
Well, she’s the head of state of a number of countries and the commonwealth. Represents political and social continuity. This has historical significance, which might be of interest to some of the readership. She was trained as a mechanic and is one of the few old enough to have been an adult in the war. Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of govern…
>Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government.
Queen Elizabeth II has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834 - Sept 2022 (1082 comments)
The article was published on Fri 17 Mar 2017 07.40 GMT when Theresa May was PM: > For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as “London Bridge.” The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “London Bridge is down” on secure lines. Interestingly, the current PM is also a she.
I think we (Brits) now draw with Norway for the most Female PMs (3 each). Of course 2 of these in the UK never won general elections...
Gro Harlem Brundtland (labour), three governments between 1981 and 1996.
Erna Solberg (conservatives), 2013-2021.