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12/04/2008, 13:50 Catalpa Joined on 23/08/2004 Southern Manche - 50 Posts 1,455 Re: The British It is only since I've been in France that I have come to realise how irritated many Irish, Welsh and Scottish people are by being referred to as Anglais. Now that I understand, of course I make sure I firmly and persistently refer to all British people as... les Anglais...    Report

12/04/2008, 16:16 allanb Joined on 04/09/2006 Posts 442 Re: The British  5-element wrote: I can't see how "English" describes most British immigrants to France. Of all British immigrants to France, more are English than are Scottish or Welsh.  So they're right most of the time. Seriously, I don't think you can do much about other people's use of their own language.  Even though the word britannique exists and is technically correct, I fear that for most French people the word anglais means British. It's perhaps not very much different from the use of the word "American" to mean a national of the United States, although technically it would include Canadians and a few others.  And Americans get confused about us too.  When the PanAm 747 went down over Lockerbie many years ago, I was watching one of the main US TV news channels, and the announcer said that Lockerbie was on the A74 which was "the main road from Britain to Scotland."    Report

12/04/2008, 16:31 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 2,788 Re: The British It always makes me smile a wry little smile when the French talk about the English and/or British as les anglo saxons, as it makes me think of hordes of elderly warriors charging across the channel.  We're not like that, are we?   Cathy Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...    Report

12/04/2008, 18:07 Mel Joined on 23/08/2004 Norwich - Home of Archant Posts 711 Re: The British Some might be, Cathy...    Report

12/04/2008, 20:23 Gengulphus Joined on 30/01/2008 Saône et Loire Posts 84 Re: The British  Mel wrote: And I am very keen to emphasise whenever I can that this    is the flag of les anglais... And not this       Oh dear.  The second object isn't anybody's flag (or jack), I fear  -  the Cross of St Patrick is not correctly placed. It's good, provided it lasts… Letizia Bonaparte    Report

12/04/2008, 20:26 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 6,264 Re: The British http://www.loyalistsatshelburne.com/350px-Flags_of_the_Union_Jack_svg.png Clair, a Real Virtual French Person La vérité est si obscurcie en ce temps et le mensonge si établi, qu'à moins d'aimer la vérité, on ne saurait la reconnaître. (Blaise Pascal)    Report

13/04/2008, 8:53 Mel Joined on 23/08/2004 Norwich - Home of Archant Posts 711 Re: The British Well spotted Gengulphus - I only copied and pasted the first one I found... Clair's link demonstrates this...    Report

13/04/2008, 9:10 Iceni Joined on 23/08/2004 Lot 46 Posts 2,906 Re: The British  Mel wrote: And while we are on this subject, please do not forget 23rd April is not far away... I agree totally, far too many forget about Shakespeare. John   Di Free resource site for new and aspiring Virtual Workers    Report

13/04/2008, 9:57 Tourangelle Joined on 31/08/2004 37 Posts 934 Re: The British  allanb wrote: Incidentally, the UK name also implies that "Great Britain" is something different from "Britain", but that's another question.  Perhaps it has something to do with the Isle of Wight. I always thought it was as opposed to Brittany, but thinking about it now, I wonder whether it is not more that the British Isles is GB and Ireland, and the largest part of this land mass is Great Britain, in the sense of big, not in the sense of wonderful?    Report

13/04/2008, 10:27 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,495 Re: The British  Iceni wrote:  Mel wrote: And while we are on this subject, please do not forget 23rd April is not far away... I agree totally, far too many forget about Shakespeare. John   Born and died on the same date I believe ? www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

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