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Originally Posted by TripleXPrint
No they're not.
home country (plural home countries)
1. the country in which a person was born and usually raised, regardless of the present country of residence and citizenship
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/home_country |
This is the real English Langauge, not that slang American crap from a wiki without a source. Now that you've proven my point...
She is using it, in the overly proper way, to make Obama's family sound important, to a group of people that are mostly aged around Obama's Fathers age -and leaders of some sort, which were around during the Crown rule and being so adopted the use of the phrase among those that think they're important, as a way to prove family importance.
Look it up... You'll even find a few other ways to say it, it's a total British thing but several Countries have picked it up over the ages.
Get it yet?