From: threejaguar-AT-yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:24:52 -0800
Subject: Re: Big Britain and Small Britain 


On 15 Nov 01, at 15:12, Russell Bennett wrote:

> > Because any country that calls itself "Great" is
> >uppity beyond belief
> 
> 
> Um....the "Great" in Great Britain originally just
> meant "not Little Britain", Little Britain being
> Brittany.

This isn't related to Brittany Spears is it? We'll have to start carpet 
bombing if it is.

Check out this website:
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~scotparl/Union.htm

Careful, you might learn something...




Regards,

Kristopher K. Barrett

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