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Pauluk
Really neat flags, GB, UK YOU forgot one MB,
or Magnus Britania. (The Latin influence, I think.)
Sometimes I have too much time on my hands and the History Channel keeps running ,
"The History of Britain".
Speaking of History, Have you seen 'Braveheart', in one scene it shows the Irish lined up along side the British, and at first it is un-believable, until they turn on them, and that was predictable.

WOC

Thanks, pauluk, for clearing up the Geography as well as the flags.

Now I've come to find out that all this time I (in the USA) thought I was speaking English...
http://www.bg-map.com/us-uk.html

http://www.effingpot.com/index.html

http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ukdict/

http://people.cornell.edu/pages/jjh26/


[This message has been edited by ThinkGood (edited 01-12-2003).]

Flags are quite a complicated issue here. The ones I pictured are just the basics, and there are plenty more. For example, whereas the U.S.A. also uses Old Glory for all ships, the U.K. has separate ensigns for different categories of ships. Then there are the various Royal Standards and complicated rules about which are flown when the queen is resident, and so on.

There are many more differences in terminology, pronuniciation, usage and grammar between the U.S. and the U.K. than many people realize. Sometimes it's not just a different word or meaning, but a word which has much more subtle overtones in one country or the other.

By the way, regional accents and slang/colloquialisms in the U.K. can change drastically within a very short distance. Many of us from the south have trouble understanding a lot of regional dialects, accents, and words from other parts of the country. For those who aren't quite familiar with the scale, the U.K. has an area just a little smaller than the state of Wyoming.