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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 04:20:34 GMT
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In article <3p8032$dbc@bertha.gssec.bt.co.uk>,
Colin Wilson <cwilson@gssec.bt.co.uk> wrote:

[much deleted]

>However, I take the general point - languages other than Scots and English
>belong to Britain just as much as they do, so perhaps "Britannic" is not
>a good term to denote them after all.
>
>I like your suggestion of "British Germanic", although I think "Germanic
>British" has a slightly better ring to it - it's hard to say why.
>
>"Scots and English" doesn't quite fit, I think - perhaps a combination of the
>two names as "Scotio-English" would be another possibility.
>
>Perhaps someone else can suggest a better alternative.

Insular Anglo-Frisian?  ^_^  Of course, then this would make the 
dialects of Frisian Islands "Continental Anglo-Frisian," which sounds
a bit funny.

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