Scottish vs. British surnames (safer, title, county)
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Man you guys keep messing with me... I thought British was the "correct" term and English was not correct because there is no longer an England and only a Great Britain... What do I know though I'm rebel scum
OMG. There will ALWAYS be an England.
England has left the European Union, maybe that's what you meant.
Man you guys keep messing with me... I thought British was the "correct" term and English was not correct because there is no longer an England and only a Great Britain... What do I know though I'm rebel scum
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Originally Posted by in_newengland
OMG. There will ALWAYS be an England.
England has left the European Union, maybe that's what you meant.
I fail to see what's so confusing?
Re. surnames, there's actually a website where you can type a surname in and it tells you where in Britain the name was most commonly found in the years 1881 and 1998. It's interesting how some names you might think of as being relatively common everywhere are clustered around certain areas, even in 1998.
I have been reliably informed by friends from Yorkshire that England is, in fact, part of Yorkshire and that your diagram fails to represent that reality.
I have been reliably informed by friends from Yorkshire that England is, in fact, part of Yorkshire and that your diagram fails to represent that reality.
Here's another picture for you in case anybody needed any further clarification
Scotland is geographically part of Great Britain, or the British Isles, so it is British in that sense, but it's a separate entity to all Scots, and to the majority of the English too.
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Originally Posted by Prickly Pear
Man you guys keep messing with me... I thought British was the "correct" term and English was not correct because there is no longer an England and only a Great Britain... What do I know though I'm rebel scum
There still is an England, and it's part of the United Kingdom, as well as being part of Great Britain.
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Originally Posted by in_newengland
OMG. There will ALWAYS be an England.
England has left the European Union, maybe that's what you meant.
It may be more correct to say that the U.K. which includes Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, has left the E.U., not just England on its own has left.
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Originally Posted by Jaggy001
I have been reliably informed by friends from Yorkshire that England is, in fact, part of Yorkshire and that your diagram fails to represent that reality.
Très drôle, that's like saying that the U.S.A. is part of Rhode Island, not a bad place, but wholly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
Man you guys keep messing with me... I thought British was the "correct" term and English was not correct because there is no longer an England and only a Great Britain... What do I know though I'm rebel scum
I must say, that's a very nice Venn Diagram you have showed us!
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There will ALWAYS be an England.
