Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:19:40 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: SAAB 900 'ep'
in article db8qb2$rb8$1nospam3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl, MH at nonospamks.no wrote on 15/07/2005 17:57: >> Holland is an accepted term for the whole of the Netherlands. > > Everywhere but the Netherlands. > It's like saying 'England' when you mean GB/UK ... but Great Britain is different from the United Kingdom! Okay, I had to look up the exact dates, but here goes: Great Britain is the official name given to the the two kingdoms of England and Scotland, and the principality of Wales, whereas the United Kingdom (correctly known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) today consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The 1707 Act of Union combined England and Scotland together under a single monarch with a single Parliament; Scotland, having had its own Parliament but came under the monarchy of England during James I reign. The 1801 Act of Union joined Ireland to the 'United Kingdom' and from 1921, only Northern Ireland submitted to the monarchy of England, hence the full title the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Scotland has again established its own Parliament and the principality of Wales its own Assembly. The British Isles, of course, are another matter, consisting of Great Britain, the whole of Ireland and a number of offshore islands including, but not exclusively, the Orkney Isles, Shetland Isles, Scilly Isles, Channel Islands, Lundy Island, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight and the Inner & Outer Hebrides. It's of minor importance to me, although not especially so, since I am half-Manx. Although the Isle of Man does submit to the monarchy of Great Britain, presumably merely to 'benefit' from the Royal Mail historically :), it is a self-governing democracy and not part of the United Kingdom, or the EU. As such, my mother (the Manx half) must still pass through the non-EU customs when re-entering Great Britain! Paul Vart tog v”gen v”gen? SAAB : Nothing on earth comes close
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