XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:20:51 GMT, "Chess One"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >>>> >> > Why say English here? Why not say British?   
   >   
   >the question is, British what? language or culture? Undoubtably there is a   
   >blend of all as some amalgm, but that is not to say that each of Irish,   
   >Welsh, Scotch, Mamx, Cornish, and Bretons do not have their own and distinct   
   >culture.   
   >   
   >>>> >> Why ask me? I didn't write that:-)   
   >>>   
   >>>> > What's your best guess?   
   >>>   
   >>>> Well looking back on the thread immediately before the post in question   
   >>>> it   
   >>>> was specifically referring to the English. Saying that I don't think the   
   >>>> Scots or Welsh are in reality likely to be any better at languages.   
   >   
   >The word WALESC [alt. 'Waugh'] means "foreigner" or "stranger" in Anglo   
   >Saxon. And is ironically the term used for the 'Cornish' [being the   
   >inhabitants of the West Wessex 4 counties and southern Cymru] who the Saxons   
   >encountered here.   
   >   
   >Phil Innes   
   >   
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