Heartfield's post on GB UK etc

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 11 14:44:36 PST 1998


Greg Nowell wrote:


>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



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