This whole British mess

England, Scotland and Wales are known as Great Britain. England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland are known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and N. Irland. The word Britain dates back to Roman times. The Romans noticed that the inhabitance of this island called them selves Britons (or something similar) so named the island Britannia. Think of it as the US were a number of countries united.

The British Isles do indeed include Ireland. Here's a copy and past from Encarta:

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British Isles, archipelago, north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, near continental Europe, from which it is separated by the North Sea, the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel. It consists of the large islands of Great Britain and Ireland; several island groups, namely, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Hebrides, and the Channel Islands; and the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, and the Isle of Man. There are about 5,000 islands altogether in the archipelago, including numerous tiny islets.

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Originally posted by chrisjk
Well it's that bit that sticks out underneath Whales.

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So Cornwall is a whales willy..:D

But don't fall into the trap of thinking Cornwall's the most westerlay part of Britain. That honour is reserved for Ardnamurchan Point in Bonnie Scotland.

*ducks

When I worked in London (Euston Road NW, nearest tube Gt Portland Street), I had a colleague who had had a share in a Cornish trawler for some years. He was French and his wife was a Scot. His accent was way off the scale on indecipherability. Thought you should know.

Plymouth and so on ? There ? Looks a bit like a errrm ... well, something dug up out of Lucy's toolshed :)

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Originally posted by chrisjk
he was referring to the fact you called England, Britain and the UK the same

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Exactly. Thanks, Chris. :)

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Plymouth and so on ? There ?

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No! Plymouth is in Devon (it's the wrong side of the Tamar).

Cornwall, along with Brittany, Wales, Scotland and Ireland is one of the, commonly referred to, Celtic Nations. It's one of the areas of the British isles that did not get assimilated by the Anglo Saxons.

We have our own version of the Celtic language which is very similar to Welsh and Breton.

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Cornish miners' wives (or whomever made the pasty) would decorate them with the guys' initials or other distinctive markings, so that down pit they'd know whose was whose

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My Grandma still does that when she makes pasties for all the familly. She makes huge ones as well. So we leave the end of the pasty with the initials on 'till later so we each remember who's is who's.

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Originally posted by Dilenger4
Lets not get carried away here Ireland is Ireland i dont care what you say about it. What are you guys going to say next that Jamaica is part of the british rule because your queen is pasted all over their money? :p

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i think the british would know :rolleyes:
by the way half of Ireland is actually under british rule lol

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by the way half of Ireland is actually under british rule lol

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It's actually closer to 1/4.

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Originally posted by hypnos
It's actually closer to 1/4.

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its an expression :rolleyes:

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its an expression

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It's an expression!! :rolleyes:

This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful. Go to Ireland, they are just inherently better and more fit to live.

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Originally posted by snakeeyes1000
This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful. Go to Ireland, they are just inherently better and more fit to live.

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Originally posted by snakeeyes1000
nobody I know really gives a *** about England.

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What is a "***". Did you leave a "*" off, and really mean "****" or perhaps "****".

I can't think of a 3-letter curse that fits this context.

Can't you spell, ***?

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Originally posted by Jim Brown
But don't fall into the trap of thinking Cornwall's the most westerlay part of Britain. That honour is reserved for Ardnamurchan Point in Bonnie Scotland.

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Mmmm, maybe. With Britain, I take it you mean Great Britain, ie the main island. The most westernly part of the UK is near Pettigoe, Northern Ireland.

snakeeyes1000:

erm, I suspect that spending your own miserable holiday walking up and down and up and down Oxford Street is not indicitive of an awful country.

are you a fat burger munching Yank?

Went to Silverstone once. Oh and Glastonbury. And Reading. had the pleasure to experience the fine English culture first hand :)

snakeeyes1000

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This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful.

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Why you reading this thread then (with Britain in the title)?

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Originally posted by Wally Pipp
Went to Silverstone once. Oh and Glastonbury. And Reading. had the pleasure to experience the fine English culture first hand :)

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Heh, the only culture at Glastonbury is the stuff that grows in hippies underwear :eek:

simon, PLAYED.....

As long as they are female I don't care :)