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Thread #114512 Message #3529835
Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
24-Jun-13 - 12:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: There'll Always Be an England
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: There'll Always Be an England
"should not be named by an acronym, but a single word ending "-land", e.g. England (like Deutschland). Or they may agree on "Britain" - not "correct" either, as Jim points out."
British is the correct and accepted term for the peoples of Great Britain in general. Why should Scots be expected to accept being called English when the correct, offical and long standing term British is already in general use - just because some foreigners can't get it right? It doesn't make any kind of sense! Just because the modern definition of the word British differs from what it was 1400 years ago it doesn't make it incorrect!
There is no adjective for people from the UK as a whole other than British but that is a different matter. Don't suppose it matters as unionists in Northern Ireland like the term British and Republicans would hate it whatever the adjective was!