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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: grumpyoldsoldier on October 13, 2007, 12:10:41 PM
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The great in Great Britain, many moons ago when I was a boy, there was always a capital g in great when it preceded Britain. I noticed an advert by the Co-op which stated that it sourced its foods etc from great Britain? Is this because of our smaller role in worlds affairs or a pc thing?
bring back the G that's what I say..
Great Britain
G String
Grumpy old soldiers.....
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Suggest to your local co-op that they find a new signwriter!
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Sorry, i didn't really expalin that as well has I should have, it was a tv advert redface:
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That'll be because lower case letters are cheaper cool14:
Someone I know emails me in lower case abbreviated form. I've often wondered whether it's because he's from Glasgow rubschin:
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Sorry, i didn't really expalin that as well has I should have, it was a tv advert redface:
Oh then complain to the advertising watchdog ~ I believe you can do it on line. They are wrong
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Roger that
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Roger that
When you say "Roger that" do you mean ? eyes:
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Behave!
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A little point here.
Unless I have been mistaken for many a year, great(er) Britain was so called to differentiate the off-shore islands from the European Brittany .
Originally, it was a geographical reference so the correct term would have been great Britain. But over time the term was adapted as the name of the countries (England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland plus Cornwall, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) then the correct form would have been modified to Great Britain. [GB]
That general usage has given way to the defined new name of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island which identified Great Britain as the mainland and not the other lesser islands.
Thus it was correct to refer to Northern Ireland with capitals but (say) south Wales or northern England in mixed cases.
As the Great Britain has evolved into the current United Kingdom [UK] the usage of the term Great Britain has become problematical inasmuch as people are unsure whether the great is still the geographical reference or Great being the correct country name.
Of course, we are still the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' so the user of the lower case 'g' should be dragged outside and shot.
But he was probably Polish anyway...
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Roger that
When you say "Roger that" do you mean ? eyes:
Not sure, but "Roger over, and out" means it's time for a Woodbine I think. whistle:
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I think this is the one that tells us the Aberdeen beef is from Scotland etc.
Thus i think the 'great' is a bit of a marketing tossers play on words...
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Thanks for that, I was just about to pen an Angry from Orpingtontype of letter to the Observer scared2:
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Try that in the uSA or iRAN and see the reaction. Flags would be burned in the streets, charges leveled and heavy sentences handed down. Why do we put up with such sh*te? ~ p'raps we deserve the little g rubschin:
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I can’t read the title of this thread without thinking The Likely Lads… noooo:
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I hear 'No More Heroes' myself.
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I hear 'No More Heroes' myself.
I'm thinking about peaches now tho... redface:
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Think on BM...
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Noooo... just peaches ( o Y o ) noooo:
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Try that in the uSA or iRAN and see the reaction. Flags would be burned in the streets, charges leveled and heavy sentences handed down. Why do we put up with such sh*te? ~ p'raps we deserve the little g rubschin:
I think it all began with the abbreviation of 'perhaps'...
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Try that in the uSA or iRAN and see the reaction. Flags would be burned in the streets, charges leveled and heavy sentences handed down. Why do we put up with such sh*te? ~ p'raps we deserve the little g rubschin:
I think it all began with the abbreviation of 'perhaps'...
rubschin: