Many foreigners who have not visited Britain call all the inhabitants English, for they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. 【C1】______, the British Isles contain a variety of peoples, and only the people of England call themselves English. The others【C2】______to themselves as Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, 【C3】______the case may be; they are often slightly annoyed 【C4】______being classified as "English". Even in England there are many 【C5】______in regional character and speech. The chief 【C6】______is between southern England and northern England. South of a 【C7】______going from Bristol to London, people speak the type of English usually learnt by foreign students, 【C8】______ there are local variations. Further north regional speech is usually "【C9】______ " than that of southern Britain. Northerners are【C10】______to claim that they work harder than Southerners, and are more【C11】______. They are open-hearted and hospitable; foreigners often find that they make friends with them 【C12】______. Northerners generally have hearty 【C13】______: the visitor to Lancashire or Yorkshire, for instance, may look forward to receiving generous 【C14】______at meal times. In accent and character the people of the Midlands 【C15】______a gradual change from the southern to the northern type of Englishman. In Scotland the sound 【C16】______by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be 【C17】______ in southern English. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty people, 【C18】______ inventive and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are frequently【C19】______as being more "fiery" than the English. They are 【C20】______ a race that is quite distinct from the English. 【C7】