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Thread #47621   Message #711979
Posted By: Brendy
16-May-02 - 09:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Not depressed, just British
Subject: RE: BS: Not depressed, just British
How's Kevin...

The reason for my suggestion of 'The Celtic Isles' as something more precise than 'The British Isles', was two-fold.

Firstly, how less intimidating the former looks and sounds (remember the soft 'C' - we're not talking about football teams, here); to name a group of islands after its' first main settlers, than after an entity which represents a foreign policy that was territorial and expansionist.

Whether one is proud of one's Norse and Saxon blood (The Vikings were descendants of the Celts), is neither here nor there; one should be proud of one's lineage, either way.

Secondly, it is more precise.

B