Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] OT: What about England
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu Dec 15 00:26:43 2005
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On 12/14/05, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote:

> NOn, ce n'est pas Juste en francais on dit "Grande Bretagne" et aussi 
> "Royaume
> Uni". Gross Brittanien in German etc etc

Yes, but as Nathan pointed out ... there ARE official designations,
but they are often not used in everyday speech. In Swedish you would
say "I am going to fly to England" (jag flyger till England) even
though we have "Storbritannien". We would never travel to "Great
Britain", we would only buy currency for Great Britain (when you look
up currency tables, you have to look up Storbritannien and not
England).

Of course technically flying to England is still correct if you are
leaving from Gothenburg. All of the destinations from our airport
_are_ in England.

We would never say we were flying to England if we were flying to
Aberdeen or Edinburgh. We would say Scotland (still not Great
Britain). I don't think you _can_ fly to Wales. I think you have to
hitch-hike.

Come to think of it, with the exception of Wales, we are pretty good
about making distinctions. That has absolutely nothing to do with
geography lessons being good at school, it has to do with football.
There are separate football teams. Once again Wales comes up short.
Wales is parallel to the holy ghost in the trinity. Most people have
some vague idea of the father and the son, but that holy ghost is hard
to pin down. Kind of like Wales.

Daniel


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