Re: CHAT National toponyms

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:18, John Cowan wrote:
> Ray Brown scripsit:
> > Yes, I have met "England" used to mean "Great Britain" - really gets up
> > the nose of Scots & Welsh. But is it really used to include six counties
> > of Ireland as well? How ignorant can a person get? I cannot imagine that
> > either Republicans or Loyalists in the 6 counties like being called
> > English!!!
>
> In historical works, it's routine to see that France did this and England
> did that, meaning by the latter the U.K.
>
> > Prince Charles
> > has wisely stated that he will, if he outlives his Mum (and her Mum lived
> > to be 101), be crowned 'George'
>
> How sad.  How very sad.
>
> What is he worried about?  That if he is crowned as Charles III, he will
> offend the large and powerful :-) Jacobite faction which applies that
> title to Charles II's son?  *They* don't recognize the House of Windsor
> in any event.
>
> And it's not even as if all the kings of the Hanover/Windsor dynasty
> are named George: we already have had two Edwards and a William.
> Why not a Charles?
What I find most upsetting is that while he was married to Princess Diane, no
American had the guts to start a restaurant in their honour, to be called
"The Windsor Restaurant a.k.a. Chuck and Di" ;0

These things are sent to try us ... ;)
>
> I greatly admire Elizabeth's courage in taking the throne in her own name.
>
> > Indeed, it is not. The actual Province of Ulster consists of _nine_
> > counties, three of which are in the Republic. But the Loyalists do use
> > the term Ulster quite a lot, seemingly as tho it were coterminous.
>
> For which informal use, a certain loon attacked me for being in the
> pay of the English -- meaning, I suppose, Reuters.  And me a good
> Hiberno-Deutsch American.
>
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