(May 15, 2015 at 8:14 am)Iroscato Wrote: Indeed, but I see little reason not to adopt that as our official name if we did dissolve the monarchy. Or just Britain, a bit less big-headed
A bit nit-picky, but there's nothing big headed about the name Great Britain. It refers to the distinction between us and Brittany; major britannia, emphasising that of the two, we are the larger.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'