Where is the trouble!?
Dimmimar
27-07-2005, 23:42
I don't see how foreign nationalities, (Americans seem to do this more) refer to Britain as England! Why!? England ceased to exist as a nation in the beginning of the 1800s! It's not very hard!
UberPenguinLand
27-07-2005, 23:44
I don't see how foreign nationalities, (Americans seem to do this more) refer to Britain as England! Why!? England ceased to exist as a nation in the beginning of the 1800s! It's not very hard!
It's not Britain! It's the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!
American here so correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you take a poll or something whenever you hear this?
I don't see how foreign nationalities, (Americans seem to do this more) refer to Britain as England! Why!?
Duh. We know it annoys the hell out of y'all. :D
I don't see how foreign nationalities, (Americans seem to do this more) refer to Britain as England! Why!? England ceased to exist as a nation in the beginning of the 1800s! It's not very hard!
England is still a nation, just not a nation state
It's not Britain! It's the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!
American here so correct me if I'm wrong.
Kingdom, not Kingdoms....that would imply that Northern Ireland was a kingdom. In fact it is 6 counties of the 32 county former Kingdom of Ireland, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Great Britain to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
26 counties of Ireland left in 1921 to become the Irish Free State (now the Irish Republic), and the 6 counties of Northern Ireland remained within the UK.
UberPenguinLand
27-07-2005, 23:58
I was closer than most Americans ever will be though. 1 letter of is pretty good.
I was closer than most Americans ever will be though. 1 letter of is pretty good.
Yup.
UberPenguinLand
28-07-2005, 00:15
Our School Dostrict pretty much drilled it into our skulls. Of course that means only abut 5 kids know it, but the school tried.