Surprised that they call the English Channel just “Der Canal” (The Channel).
Was this the accepted name across Europe? I imagined it was a British thing, abbreviating it locally because from the British perspective it was the most important, most referred to, channel.
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my takeaways:
no use of „UK,“ „GB“ or „Britain“
just Ireland, England and Scotland (I imagine England meant all three)
Wales isn’t labelled, nor is Glasgow , which was already bigger than Edinburgh, or Belfast, which was on its way to overtaking Dublin in Ireland (though not yet)
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Ah, the good old days
Surprised that they call the English Channel just “Der Canal” (The Channel).
Was this the accepted name across Europe? I imagined it was a British thing, abbreviating it locally because from the British perspective it was the most important, most referred to, channel.
my takeaways:
no use of „UK,“ „GB“ or „Britain“
just Ireland, England and Scotland (I imagine England meant all three)
Wales isn’t labelled, nor is Glasgow , which was already bigger than Edinburgh, or Belfast, which was on its way to overtaking Dublin in Ireland (though not yet)