# Great Britian vs. United Kingdoms vs. The British Empire

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 10, 2009, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-britian-vs-united-kingdoms-vs-the-british-empire/488930 "2009-03-10T07:13:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-britian-vs-united-kingdoms-vs-the-british-empire/488930/121 "2009-03-29T15:15:03Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> What’s Brittany in Irish? Does “An Bhreatain Bheag” mean “Little Britain”?

An Bhriotáin is Brittany, I do believe that An Bhreatain Bheag means literally Little Britain as opposed to An Bhreatain Mhór which is Great Britain.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-britian-vs-united-kingdoms-vs-the-british-empire/488930/122 "2009-03-29T19:07:56Z")

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> [@chowder](#):
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> Big?
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> Well I never;)

Well, I suppose they made a nice big headline once, on beating Celtic.

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> Super Cally are fantastic, Celtic are atrocious.

😃

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**Author:** ![fortytwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f9ae1b/32.png) [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-britian-vs-united-kingdoms-vs-the-british-empire/488930/123 "2009-03-29T20:41:17Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Super Cally are fantastic, Celtic are atrocious.

The version I read was " Super Cally Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious."

Taken from the Sun I believe.

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