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Thread #124681   Message #2761805
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Nov-09 - 07:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
I'd have thought that the Scot Nationalist posititon would be that, regardless of the political position and the link with England, Scotland was already a nation, as it always had been, and that the correct way of expressing this would be by referring to "the United Kingdoms".

As for what to call the rest of the present UK if Scotland pulls out, maybe they could call it "the United Kingdom of Southern Britain and Northern Ireland". Though since neither Wales nor Northern Ireland have ever been kingdoms, I'm not too sure that "United Kingdom" would be appropriate. But perhaps it'll be a republic by that time anyway.