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Correct, bobs mum

A regular Jack perhaps (8)

I'm thinking perhaps of the Royal Navy - am I on the right lines?

No not really the right lines -- think more what flys over Buck house

STANDARD



....though I must take you to task on that, bobs mum - a "jack" is a flag flown from a "jackstaff" at the stern of a ship. I know most people called the Union Flag the Union Jack, but I am afraid that most people are wrong (unless it happens to be on a jackstaff!)

No hard feelings, I hope!

I really must apologise for that sudden outbreak of pedantry.

At anyway it appears that I'm not even correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack

OH, wow -- sorry i did not know that --- no hard feelings at all, I thought that 'jack' was a generic term for a flag as is standard ---- thanks again, oh, i'm having an education

was just thinking union jack


hope others can join in. Your go

LOl our posts crossed -- x think we r possibly both a little right or wrong depending on how u think about things