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Rob Philpott wrote:

Well, the word comes English comes from Anglo-Saxon

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Nagy Vilmos wrote:

While on this subject, I wish web nobs could work out the difference between
nationality and country. I am sick of seeing a drop down for Nationality and
have "United Kingdom", it should be "British" or titled differently.

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

my Mother is Irish and Dad Irish/Scot[ch][s]

Its really simple . The United Kingdom is made up mainly of England , Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland . Where as the island of Great Britain consists of England , Wales and Scotland .  And the island of Ireland consists of Northen Ireland which is part of the UK and the Irish republic (Eire) , which used to be part of the UK , but not any more. Now people in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland often consider themselves to have almost dual nationality , Welsh and British , Scottish and British , English and British and Irish and British ( except for a sizeable number of those in Northern Ireland who consider they are Irish ( as in the republic) or British and Northern Irish ). However this is complicated by the English who often use the term English interchangeably with the term British . Which can annoy the Welsh , Scottish and Northern Irish . This is an old habit where the terms used to be synonymous for a period of time , and unfortunately many Americans also talk that way . When talking externally we tend to use the term Brits ( except some in NI) , where as internally we often use Welsh or Scottish . Of course this ignores complexities introduced when talking  of the bailiwick of the channel Isles and the Isle of man , and the less said about Berwick Upon Tweed the better .
 The Empire tends to get referred to as the British Empire , oddly because that was its name . England never had an Empire in the sense that we know it . The Brits as a whole did . Which for most of the time included all the Irish .

See - simples !

ChrisElston wrote:

I am British

Mark_Wallace wrote:

England would probably lose on penalties, as always.