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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just out of interest, how many people routinely refer to the United Kingdom as England (such as The Queen of England)?
Don't want this post to turn into a Scotland vs England rant or anything like that. I've just always been interested in how some people refer to the two as though they are the same.
Example: in the first Sharpe episode, Sean Bean as Sharpe says to Harper "Is that why you joined the British Army Harper?" then a sentence later says "It can't be easy wearing the uniform of England."
Another example is in the third episode of Hornblower when Robert Lindsay refers to England as "a damn big foggy isle nor'noreast of Ushant".
If anyone does this do you realise that you are doing it? Why do you think you do it (if you know)? 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have always lived in England.
I never say that I am from the United Kingdom
It actually bugs me on some websites where you register information that I can not select England as my country.
Excuse me webmasters, but the United Kingdom, technically, is not a Country. It is a union of countries that form a Kingdom. A realm. A domain.
The United States of America, however, is a country.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yeah and really pisses me off when it happens as well like in the Olympics even the commentators were saying things like "another medal for England" when it was jade jones who is welsh winning a medal for taekwondo, or Chris hoy (Scottish) winning a medal in the cycling!
Even when Scotland were voting to stay or leave there were newspapers with the st George flag with the caption "don't leave us" everything in the news was like Scotland threatening to leave england it's like fucking hello, it's the United Kingdom. England isn't the be all and end all.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I always refer to myself as British, never English. I don't agree with labeling yourself as one one day and the other then next. I'm British first and foremost. Although I'm sure there are others that want to stamp their provincial identity first |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Any forms that ask for nationality and have 'British' - I cross out and put English.
I love my country - love its history - and very proud to proclaim where I come from.
And for me - rebuild Hadrian's Wall - lol  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am a British citizen, born in England and resident of the UK. I am Lancastrian by the grace of God 
I use whatever is appropriate at the time, but always refer to the appropriate designation rather than crossing the streams. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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I was born in England. I have Welsh, Northern Irish, Cornish and English ancestry (as far as I know anyway). I consider myself British in terms of nationality but emotionally I am West Country through and through. |
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I think of myself as English, though I might call myself a Brit. I never refer to the UK and it always annoys me when they ask for country on a form and I look for England near the top, but have to scroll down to UK at the bottom! !
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