A nice surprise to hear Adam Ragusea use the term “Anglo Celtic Isles”. Is this the prime candidate to replace British Isles?

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1. Most Irish people resent having any collective term (except YOUKNOWWHO) , but I guess Anglo Celtic is an improvement.

2. Yeah it’s grand like

   Edit: appreciate the effort

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4. Does he think a pudding is the same as a sausage?

5. “Britain and Ireland” is already in use.

   Other confusing terms just make the issue seem silly. Fair play if they catch in but increasing the usage of Britain and Ireland should be fine. I know somebody will say it doesn’t include other islands but if they are part of the Archipelago then they should be included in one or other of the main islands, same as Arán or Arran, Man can be Britain or Ireland, up to them.

6. A fellow friend of desoto??

7. Britain is an old Latinized name, older than any of the states on it, as old as Eire. Remember Ire-land is an Anglicization. The western bits off Eurasia have been called that for a long, long time.

8. A lot of Brits say it’s just a name or whatever, I doubt they would ever live under the name irish isles though

9. The British and Irish Isles should be the easiest term.

10. I prefer greater ireland

11. The United Kingdom of Marty Morrisey and Sons.

12. I thought the preferred term was “These Islands”?

13. I like it 👍🏻

14. Will never be used outside of Ireland

15. Adam Ragusea is a class act. Very willing to research topics before videos.

16. One of us, one of us, one of us. We’re like your weird uncle who wants to be involved in your life.

17. I’ve never understood the need to come up with a collective term for both islands beyond ‘Britain & Ireland’.

    I know some argue the Channel Islands and Isle of Man aren’t Britain but they’re happy enough being in the British-Irish Interparliamentary Assembly and ultimately they’re British possessions.

18. Man one of those petty items of discussion that only people with a chip on their shoulder talk about.

    Usually by people from a minority upset about the status quo and trying to fight it with really irrelevant shit.

    Other examples:

    * Some Irish people complaining about Americanisms (when they speak a foreign language)

    * Some French people that complain about English words (when friggin English vocab has a ton of French words)

    * Some Americans bitching about the metric (when their system is based on SU and metric and apply dumb conversion factors).

19. Why can’t people just say Britain and Ireland

20. Oumuamua isles it is then

21. I am a fan of North Atlantic Isle. Or you could say the North Atlantic archipelago. which ever you prefer.

22. Right, Anglo Celtic Isles is great.

    What people don’t seem to understand is that the Greeks & Romans referred to the islands of Ireland and Britain as “Prettanoi” back around 300BC. During Julius Caesars reign the “P” changed to a “B” i.e “Brettanoi” which translates to “The Britons” i.e “The British Isles”.

    The origins of “British Isles” outdates England invading Ireland by around 1500 years and has absolutely nothing to do with colonisation at all.

    Edit : The name actually outdates England by over 1000 years.

23. A very pleasant surprise!

    I’ve been mulling it over in my head (fuck knows why) and I think that’s my favourite term – everyone is roughly represented, and Britain isn’t given special status.

    As for the why, people still use “The British Isles”, and any real replacement has to be memorable to those people.

24. I prefer the Hiberno-British Archipelago personally

25. I’m Welsh, so definitely not Anglo. Quite nice.