British = English?

[gagalloogie]

I'm English yay...but with like half my family is of Irish decent, just been living in England a good 80 years or something, well not half, just the my last name is Irish and they same from Ireland within a century ago...and i'm pretty sure another very small part is scottish....the rest is definately very English though...am I British?!??!

 

[Sparrow]

Blah blah blah.
If you let the Queen of England rule over you, that means you're English. Gain independence and then we'll talk.

Sorry, what's that? All I heard was "Blah, blah, I like hardcore sports, blah. Blah..."

"...blah."

 

[Spacelord]

On a related note: Dutch and Deutsch are two entirely different things. Stop confusing the two!

 

[BakaMick]

Irish mum, Scottish dad ... so i class myself as Celtic, just to be different

 

[CIA]

Blah blah blah.
If you let the Queen of England rule over you, that means you're English. Gain independence and then we'll talk.

Poor Canada and Australia...they thought they had their own nationality until you posted that.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Okay then. I think the differentiations boil down to the fact that people want to be called English/Welch/Scottish/Irish and not British. I can respect that.

Nah, that's not it. The thing it boils down to is that someone from Scotland wouldn't like to be called an Englishman, but if you called that Scot "British" he or she probably wouldn't mind. (unless he or she is one of those extremely grumpy and overly patriotic Scot's who still live in the past that is)

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Blah blah blah.
If you let the Queen of England rule over you, that means you're English. Gain independence and then we'll talk.

Do you have anything in particular against the Queen of England, or is it just monarchy in general?

 

[Sparrow]

Blah blah blah.
If you let the Queen of England rule over you, that means you're English. Gain independence and then we'll talk.

Sorry, what's that? All I heard was "Blah, blah, I like hardcore sports, blah. Blah..."

"...blah."

I don't like hardcore sports, whatever you mean by that.
Anyway, chill, I was joking.

Watch more English TV my friend, I was joking too.

 

[Abedeus]

For a person proud of being a Brit, you don't seem to know the basics between "your" and "you're".

Foreigners don't make such errors.

 

[Clyde]

If the Queen of England is your head of state, you are British.
That includes Canada, until they get around to having a revolution.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

According to the Font of All Knowledge and Wisdom (aka Wikipedia) the demonym for the people of the United Kingdom is "British". Therefore:

All Scots are British
All Welshmen are British
All Englishmen are British
All Northern Irelanders are British

You do get that right?

Contesting that would be exactly like a Texan, Californian, New Yorker, or Michigander arguing that they aren't American (American being the demonym for the people of the United States of America).

 

[Sparrow]

For a person proud of being a Brit, you don't seem to know the basics between "your" and "you're".

Foreigners don't make such errors.

I've never been good with puncuation.

"Foreigners" usually have better English than be anyway. Either way, I hope you didn't mean foreigners as an insult to non-English people.

 

[Valkyira]

I don't mind being labelled British, I just hate it when people think British people all have one accent that sounds like a 1920's English news reader.

 

[Froobyx]

I don't like being called British, I prefer English... I am from England after all

 

[Sparrow]

According to the Font of All Knowledge and Wisdom (aka Wikipedia) the demonym for the people of the United Kingdom is "British". Therefore:

All Scots are British
All Welshmen are British
All Englishmen are British
All Northern Irelanders are British

You do get that right?

Contesting that would be exactly like a Texan, Californian, New Yorker, or Michigander arguing that they aren't American (American being the demonym for the people of the United States of America).

Never trust Wikipedia, it failed my Science exam for me when I was a wee lad.

Anyway, as a label, yes. However, not a nationality.

 

[curlycrouton]

Blah blah blah.
If you let the Queen of England rule over you, that means you're English. Gain independence and then we'll talk.

So I presume that everybody in the British Empire was English as well were they?

Nein.

 

[Woodsey]

That's what it means technically but I'd say something a little different.

I say I'm British because

1) it sounds cooler then saying English to be honest and
2) I was born in Britain

I could say I'm European - because I technically am - but it doesn't mean I'm partly [insert all European countries here] does it?

So whatever, if you're that pompous about it, just correct everyone over and over and over again when they say it.

Besides, the point of "British = English" is right. If you're English, you're British, and if you're British, it's possible to be English.

So it's preference.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Contesting that would be exactly like a Texan, Californian, New Yorker, or Michigander arguing that they aren't American (American being the demonym for the people of the United States of America).

So you are comparing a state of a country to that of an entire country. I don't call myself a Londoner, or people from Essex Essixers. It's really not a fair comparison at all.

 

[Vlane]

Oh come on. Even if you are not British I will still call you British because then my brain thinks that you have a funny British accent which makes you a lot cooler.