Re: CHAT National toponyms (was: OT Caution!! IRA funding)

Ray writes:

>>It's strange how names of countries are formed. Sometimes, the place name
>>adopted for the country may have been used for the whole area of that
>>country (Australia), sometimes only for a part (England, Holland). However
>
>Holland I understand. But England? I was born here and have lived in
>England nearly two thirds of my 65+ years (the other third I lived in
>Wales). But what is this part of England from which England is named?
It seems to have improved in recent years, at least among my own
coterie of friends, but in the hoarfrost of the 70's, England/(Great)
Britain meant the whole of the UK. For those of us scrambling to be
correct, it's "the Netherlands," and "the United Kingdom" is united
because it's composed of four constituents.

Kou

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