English or British...an American asking

Strange isn't it... the Scots among us don't like being called British in case people think they're English... and the English don't like being called British because they don't want to be confused with the Scots, Welsh, Manx, Bretons et al....

jump over to my country, compared to that, you're easy satisfied 😂

I wonder if the ppl in the islands dont like being called portuguese 😑 I mean here we are all portuguese but 🤨

I'm not so sure about that BGK; personally if someone called me a Scot, I would take offence at all. I'd correct them, but I wouldn't get arsey about it.

Everyone else in the UK loves to hate the English, but personally I couldn't care less. I always support any UK team playing international sports (unless they're playing England of course, in which case I support England), but can the same be said about other UK residents supporting England when they're playing?.......I think not.

Originally posted by finti
English people are from England, British is a description of all of those relating to Great Britain. Like a Scotsman can be called British or Scotish but under no circumstance call him English. And an English is British as well, it is just that British is their common name while the English part describes what part of GB he/she is from

indeed..should not be to hard to understand that! 😉

So does this sum it up:

Great Britian (aka British)= England, Scotland, and Wales

United Kingdom = England, Scotland, Wales, and Nothern Ireland

Thanks for the history lesson, I never really knew the details either, but history was not in my interests when i was in highschool many moons ago. But now it's much more interesting to me.

that should do it..

EDIT

My sentence should say "...wouldn't take offence...".

no worries MM, ur next sentence clued us in to what u really meant..... 😎

Originally posted by Linkalicious
where the hell did you Brits come up with Yanks? atleast we had a reason to call you Red Coats...

Yanks is better than what I've heard some people call Americans!

Originally posted by Phoenix
Yanks is better than what I've heard some people call Americans!

Originally posted by Kes
I was expecting that Ush 😆

Its like saying American or saying yanky! Right??

Except for some people consider it an insult...

believe it or not, but I actually look forward to a day when there are no nationalities.... when everyone the world over can be free from despotic rule, revelling in an international community and proud to call themselves English....

btw, thats a joke....

🙄

Hey Americans and British aint surposed to be fighting each other...

Save all that hatred for the noobie terrorists.

Who do they think they are trying to plant a chemical bomb in our contry? I say dam them all to hell.

Give me a knife and i'll kill 10 terrorists
Give me a M16 and i'll kill 200 terrorists
Give me a rocket launcher and i'll give you a bloodbath

Lets not go into that.

hazard, no politics please 🙄

Hey Americans and British aint surposed to be fighting each other...

Save all that hatred for the noobie terrorists.

Who do they think they are trying to plant a chemical bomb in our contry? I say damn them all to hell.

Give me a knife and i'll kill 10 terrorists
Give me a M16 and i'll kill 200 terrorists
Give me a rocket launcher and i'll give you a bloodbath

Don't make me get Democratic on your ass! 😠

j/k 😛

But remember...

war

Originally posted by Linkalicious
where the hell did you Brits come up with Yanks? atleast we had a reason to call you Red Coats...

The word Yanks originated from the red Indian name for the white settlers (yangees) and it's a corruption of the Spanish for English which is Anglo and the French which is Anglais and therefore infact the 'yanks' are the English. As the English formed the majority of the early settlers there by making English the national language of the United States the other settlers from Britain and Ireland, one country for most of that time, and to include the Scots (from Scotland) and the Welsh (from Wales) together with the already mentioned English and Irish were all labled with the same name.

If you're interested i can tell you about the origins of the British, the english, Scots, Welsh and the Irish 🙂