Posted by Owen Roberts on January 08, 2007 at 14:17:21 from 195.92.67.75 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Ah! - Re: Britain posted by Adam Quinan on January 08, 2007 at 11:50:44:
"And in earlier days Scotland was quite often called North Britain. "
Also for Jock and others, there was, before 1923, a Scottish railway company called the North British Railway. It's engines were painted in a smart mid brown livery.
IIRC that there was also a newspaper called the North Britain.
It is amazing how much space is taken trying to define the indefinable. It is more like a EU mis-Directive.
Perhaps we should all accept the slightly misquoted sentiment of Alice's White Rabbit - that it means precisely what I want it to mean!