07-12-2006, 04:33 AM
Ghost_Op Wrote:Herr Mullen Wrote:Ghost_Op Wrote:...I was just making very clear that I now know that Brit is an incorrect term when referencing a native of citizen of England.
Why is it a guy from Ireland is Irish, a man from Scotland is Scottish, a man from Wales is Welsh, but a guy from England is British?
Britain; the collective name for the countries that make up the British Iles, being Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England. People from England are English.
Dear, oh, dear. I'm such a know-it-all.
1) Do they have a unified government (UK)? If so, it would be hard to say 'United Kingdomish'.
2) Perhaps it just stuck from the old days, when the British EMPIRE existed.
The English don't have a parliiment of their own. Everyone answers to the Parliment in England, but have a bit of free reign of their own. Scotland, for example, has a smoking ban whilst the English don't. The Ilse of Man had no speed limits, until recently.
Anyone from the British Iles is British.