Re: Broadway: Mostly for Tourists?

Darrell Jefress wrote:
"Stephen Farrow" <stephen.farrow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm a citizen of it, thank you very much (British *and* English, in
fact). Believe it or not, I don't need some patronising American to
explain to me the make-up of the country of my birth. And while the
United Kingdom is a state, and England is a nation within it, *Great
Britain* is an island.

Stephen , pardon me for the tangent, but you may be the most qualified
person I've come across to answer this question -

Is there, in fact, no administrative/governmental entity named "Great
Britain", that would include England, Scotland, and Wales, but exclude
Northern Ireland? The specifics of the term "Great Britain" have never been
clear to me, primarily because I could never feel confident in anyone I
asked about it.

No, there's no such administrative entity. "Great Britain" simply refers to the island (except that, as I think the presumptuous Mr. Kennedy noted, "British", across the world, is generally accepted as shorthand for "citizen of the UK" or "originating in the UK"); the nation as a whole is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which is made up of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Aside from the UK government, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own national assemblies, but there's no governmental entity overseeing *Great Britain*, as opposed to *the UK*.

--

Stephen

The Doctor: Think of it. Plastic, all over the world. Every
artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop-window dummies,
the phones, the wires, the cables...
Rose: The breast implants...
.

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