Some facts about Britain for Americans.

Originally posted by trev33
never in my life have i came across anyone who said 'britain' just consisted of england and wales.

Map on the right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britons_(historical)

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
People "often refer to" the UK and it's parts incorrectly.

it's clear from this thread that you're right they do... none more so than you.

you should call the uk eduction broads and tell them how wrong they are... been teaching britain as meaning england, scotland, wales and n. ireland for years they have.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Map on the right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britons_(historical)

we've moved on from the romans dude. you should as well...

Originally posted by trev33
it's clear from this thread that you're right they do... none more so than you.

you should call the uk eduction broads and tell them how wrong they are... been teaching britain as meaning england, scotland, wales and n. ireland for years they have.

I don't care about the UK's education. I'm focussed on local education.

The UK is the country that produced the BNP that claims English are indigenous to the island...clearly they need to work on education just like we do.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
The Welsh are the Britons.

yes, they may have been a single tribe called Britons, for the Kingdom of Strathclyde once ran from Glasgow all the way down to North Wales. For example, i live in East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow. This word is a compound of two Gaelic words, Dun = fortress, and Barton = 'Britons', so we have Dunbarton = the fortress of the Britons.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes, they may have been a single tribe called Britons, for the Kingdom of Strathclyde once ran from Glasgow all the way down to North Wales. For example, i live in East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow. This word is a compound of two Gaelic words, Dun = fortress, and Barton = 'Britons', so we have Dunbarton = the fortress of the Britons.

They were that far north? Interesting. Sounds like Scotland holds some of that original British land too.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I don't care about the UK's education. I'm focussed on local education.

The UK is the country that produced the BNP that claims English are indigenous to the island...clearly they need to work on education just like we do.

focussed .... that'll be focused you were looking for. uk eduction system 1 - american 0 😵

Originally posted by trev33
focussed .... that'll be focused you were looking for. uk eduction system 1 - american 0 😵

(also focussed)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/focused_1

You also need to capitalize both UK and American and spell education correctly. You need to capitalize the first letter of the sentence too.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Pythias the Greek cartographer used the term before that because that's what the Gaulish Celts called it.

Okay, but the Romans put it in lights. Emperor Claudius established the Roman colony
known officially as Britannia in AD 43. He thought it would be a neat place to play soccer.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
(also focussed)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/focused_1

You also need to capitalize both UK and American and spell educ[b]ation correctly. You need to capitalize the first letter of the sentence too.

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i'll give you education, caps are overrated and it's focused.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
They were that far north? Interesting. Sounds like Scotland holds some of that original British land too.

yes they were pushed northwards and westwards, its really interesting. There is great debate as to whether the Celts were blonde or dark haired (the welsh are traditionally dark haired)

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Okay, but the Romans put it in lights. Emperor Claudius established the Roman colony
known officially as Britannia in AD 43. He thought it would be a neat place to play soccer.

Soccer? I thought it was football.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Soccer? I thought it was football.

You mean with like helmuts and stuff, right?

Originally posted by Frank Burns
You mean with like helmuts and stuff, right?

the exact one.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01203/petr_cech_1203233c.jpg

Originally posted by mwmiller
So,

Britain = Great Britain = (England + Wales + Scotland).

United Kingdom = United Kingdom of Great Britain = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland = (Great Britain + Northern Ireland + miscellaneous smaller islands in the vicinity).

Is that about right, or did I miss a turn somewhere?

It isn't, properly, called the UK of GB. If it were there'd be no need for the UK part. It's the UK of GB and NI.

And then there's Man. And the Channel Islands. And sundry other tax havens which may or may not be part of the Kingdom, may or may not be Crown Dependencies, may or may not actually be democracies (Sark still isn't, really), and goodness knows what other complications.

I think they're doing it on purpose.

Richard