"British", was: [DS] camo schemes for vehicles
From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 03:31:30 +0100
Subject: "British", was: [DS] camo schemes for vehicles
Allan Goodall wrote:
> >My real point being that the term British refers to the collective
> >inhabitants of the island group just West of France.
>
> Hmmm.... but how much "Briton" was left after the intermarrying with
the
> Romans (Roman-British) and the invasion of the Angles and Saxons???
*S*
Not too many. There are about 600,000 of them left in Wales today IIRC
:-) Unless my memory fails me entirely, modern Cymric is a direct
descendant to the old Brythonic language (as spoken by the ancient
Britons, from which the name "Britain" stems). The name "Cymru" wasn't
adopted until well after the Anglo-Saxon invasions IIRC, but our
resident
Cymru will have to fill in the details here :-)
Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
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What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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