Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:26 PM 9/29/1999 -0400, Simon Stevens wrote: >Since the Cross >of St. Andrew is still part of the Union Flag, Scotland is still part of >Britain. The bit south of the border is called England, but both form >part of the entity commonly referred to as Gt.Britain, even after the >recent constitutional modifications. "Great" Britain is not "Britain". Britain is an older name for England. "Great" Britain includes Wales and Scotland. But, Britain is the old Roman province of Britannia, which excluded Scotland. The bloody Sassanachs came later and polluted the place, and, among their other thieveries, renamed the bottom part of the island England. But, England = Britain. "Great" Britain is another thing, entirely, the invention of the rapacious pols who forced my people to leave the UK for the colonies with their rather patently fradulent "Act of Union". Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!