The word "Brits" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an informal term used to refer to British people, so it can be used in informal contexts. For example: "The Brits are known for their humour and wit."
Yet us Brits pride ourselves on being fair.
They are probably rather more interested in the dollars that can be extracted from Maldives television than in assuaging the suffering of pampered Brits who can't survive without a dose of Eddie Mair to make the chocolate gelato taste that little bit better.
Today's tooth-aware Brits can choose from an array of celebrity dentists, including Khalid Khan of Liverpool, who has worked on footballer John Barnes and singer Ian McCulloch Jamie Newlandss of Glasgow, who honed the smiles of Robert Carlyle and Sharleen Spiteri; or the Welbeck Clinic in London, which has treated Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Helena Bonham Carter.
The current strength of the pound against the euro, combined with low mortgage rates, has led to a resurgence of interest among Brits in the French property market.
As for all the plans to rebalance the economy, to change the Brits from savers and spenders … no sooner does the chancellor mouth them then they are as good as forgotten.
But for Danish comic Sofie Hagen, that's not too different from the crap she has to put up with in daily life: from the Brits who correct her English to the men who expect her to be impressed by their self-proclaimed status as "chubby chasers".
But they all have to remember what the sociologists sometimes call "white heritage elderly" Brits – younger ones too – who are untravelled, perhaps less educated and instinctively wary of this multicultural stuff, not least because they suffer the downside.
The other teams are trying to adopt Cavendish-in-the-road-race tactics against the Brits.
According to the leaked copy, the report estimates there are 2.3 million non-British EU citizens living in the UK and up to 2.2 million Brits living elsewhere in Europe and concludes that the effects have been "largely positive".
We're looking over the border in dismay at what our fellow Brits have voted for.
In the end it was Brownlee who sprinted clear of Luis to take the tape for the Brits ahead of Luis, with Vanek, who stole a march on Wilson in T2, claiming an upset bronze ahead of Australia, who again had to settle for fourth.
