Why is Britain so great?

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  1. red

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    The English language and we invented football that’s my 2 for greatness
     
    red24/7, Nov 25, 2020
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    Great post
     
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    Why the English language?
     
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    Because it’s used by everyone in the world so it must be great:)
     
    red24/7, Nov 25, 2020
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    Add on
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    Sort of forced upon a lot of the world and in the case of say Wales and Ireland they lost their own language in the process. Agree with you on football though.
     
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    I’d love to learn another language all I can do is order a large beer in Spanish sadly
     
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    I will remove English language and replace it with fish and chips
     
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    French supposedly....Fish and chips just became popular here in Victorian times...I read an article that said there were over 30,000 chippies in London alone at one time.
     
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    Yer right , I think nostalgia is a thing of the past !
     
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    Oh no I will remove fish and chips and replace with Yorkshire puddings (they can’t be french surely)
     
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    There are worse phrases to know....I bought a tourist phrase book the first time I went to Spain.....one of the apparently useful phrases was " what happens to the ears of the bull after the bullfight"....strangely enough I've never had cause to use it.
     
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    Those were the days when you had a phrase book :),happy times
     
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    Came over with the Romans....just made that up:)
     
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    Your winding me up now;):)
     
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    ‘Great’ was never a label of quality or power, though it was never too bad at either.
    Britain became great, or rather a united kingdom, when James VI of Scotland also became James I of England in 1603, inheriting the crown & uniting the separate monarchies following the death of Liz I. Edward I (Plantagenet French) had already conquered & colonised Wales 300 years earlier & Cromwell would later do his best to turn the Irish against each other. Local imperialism at its best/worst.
    Romans had been and gone. Alfred the Great (because he really was a bit great), united the rival Anglo-Saxon states against invading vikings, creating an early idea of England around 900AD.
    Then the Normans (also Vikings, originally) came over & killed the last Anglo Saxon king, Harold. & the rest is fairly modern history..

    Britain is a bit of everything, a right continental mongrel. You couldn’t find a group of people more European if you cooked it up in a lab.
    That’s pretty great, I suppose.. :)
     
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    No, you can’t remove the English language. There can’t be another language where you can put 5 ‘ands’ next to each other and the sentence makes sense.
    Eg: If you write fish and chips, you should leave spaces between the words fish and and and and and chips. As a bonus, it also means you can’t remove fish and chips or the example doesn’t work.
    Result!!
     
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    StatisTYKE Well-Known Member

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    And the Anglo Saxons were from Europe. We're immigrants. We need to get ourselves out of this island
     
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    Some clever Barnsley fans about
     
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    It works in German too :D

    Wenn du Fish und Chips schreibst, sollst du zwischen Fish und und und und und Chips eine Leerstelle lassen.
     
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