From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 03:31:30 +0100
Subject: "British", was: [DS] camo schemes for vehicles
> Allan Goodall wrote: > >My real point being that the term British refers to the collective *S* Not too many. There are about 600,000 of them left in Wales today IIRC :-) Unless my memory fails me entirely, modern Cymric is a direct descendant to the old Brythonic language (as spoken by the ancient Britons, from which the name "Britain" stems). The name "Cymru" wasn't adopted until well after the Anglo-Saxon invasions IIRC, but our resident Cymru will have to fill in the details here :-)