(May 14, 2015 at 2:39 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Man, if only we had a different, equally recognisable name that isn't suggestive of a monarchy like...Great Britain?
Great Britain is the island that includes England, Scotland, and Wales. It does not include anything else, though sometimes people misuse it as a synonym for the United Kingdom. See:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...at+Britain
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
