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Old 15-05-2006, 21:35   #16
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Re: What it means to be British..
Actually fella; it's a fact that the colonies are a large part of British past generations, thus making you a very foreign being indeed. Or...are you denying all knowledge of Blighty being the all conquering empire? hmm...well if the historians are lying they're dong it in style!
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Old 15-05-2006, 21:37   #17
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Ta for the karma comment by the way....lovely how you hide you're comments away from the public. How very British
no problem and just so people know i kept it short and sweet

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Old 15-05-2006, 21:39   #18
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lol
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he's like a character out of 'love thy neighbour'

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Old 15-05-2006, 21:42   #19
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OOPSA.....think I stirred up a hornest nest here.........
Tal nowt wrong with stirring up a hornets nest it is fun. Well providing you can run quick enough.

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Old 15-05-2006, 23:04   #20
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So on this basis what does that make me then? Oh by the way you forgot Ulster/Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom = England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Great Britain = England, Scotland and Wales.

That clear it up for you spuggie?
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Old 16-05-2006, 00:51   #21
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I seem to remember being taught at the Top Council in Arrod that ,
Britain = England, Wales, Scotland .
Great Britain= England, Wales. Scotland and Ireland (north and south) , United Kingdom = England,Wales,Scotland and Ulster not sure where the Isle of Man belongs

whatever ....its just a couple of small islands off the coast of Europe
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Old 16-05-2006, 09:26   #22
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Re: What it means to be British..
The full title is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."

"The British Isles" = Scotland/England/Wales & Ireland (north and south) plus all the other little bits around the edges including the Isle of Man.

Does that help?
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Old 16-05-2006, 09:27   #23
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Re: What it means to be British..
excuse my ignorance but what is the differance between U.K & Great Britain
Is it northern Ireland
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Old 16-05-2006, 09:29   #24
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Yes! lol (see my pervious post)
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Old 16-05-2006, 09:30   #25
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I was a bit late, I see with my question, I have read the previous answers.
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Old 16-05-2006, 09:35   #26
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Re: What it means to be British..
All this confusion from a few little words. Does it matter what we call are selves or how we discribe the islands on which we live?
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Old 16-05-2006, 11:04   #27
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Re: What it means to be British..
I was taught at school....Great Britain was England,Wales,Scotland and Northern Ireland.......wonder if ACCY grammar got it wrong?
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I have given up trying to work it out. Would the Falklands be classed as British or a British territory?????
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British Protectorate........I think.....
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I was taught at school....Great Britain was England,Wales,Scotland and Northern Ireland.......wonder if ACCY grammar got it wrong?
It did. Great Britain is ESW only. The United Kingdom is that of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British Isles are the Islands of Britain & Ireland, irrespective of the political division on the latter.
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