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DiogenesKynikos
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Peter Pan copyright
It's not really ambiguous at all, unless one is being pedantic. "I like the Brits because of their eccentricity" is perfectly normal English, referring to their overall quality of being eccentric.
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DiogenesKynikos
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You can technically read it that way, but that's not how I think most native speakers would read it.
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