>I found this edifying, but I think that there is some
>linguistic confusion over "great" as in "outstanding"
>versus "great" as in big. "Grande Bretagne" for
>example simply points out that there is a big one which
>is bigger than the little one (in France), and is to
>my mind no more perjorative than the Greater vs the
>less Tunb islands in the Persian Gulf. I do think
>people can sometimes get hung up and make a PC issue
>out of something that is not particularly a PC issue.
Didn't Thatcher claim that under her, Britain was great again?
Doug