BRITISH NOT ENGLISH.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 72, 25 March 1915, Page 7

BRITISH NOT ENGLISH.

fro the Editor.! Sir, —Kindly allow mc through your columns to make an emphatic protest against the repeated use of the word England, when meaning Britain. Moreespecially since this war started, we hear on all sides; and read in the Press, of the English Army, the English Navy, the invasion of England, or the capture of an English tTench, etc., etc., ad nauseam. Now, sir, 1 am a Scotsman, and have the greatest respect for Englishmen, as man to man, but since- I left Scotland, twenty-five years ago, I have moved about the -world a good deal, and must say that ti. have been forced to believe that England and Englishmen occupy a back seat in the man.-, agemcnt of the affairs of our mighty Empire. I always have resented the use of the word England when Britain is meant, and I always will; not from any ill-will towards Englishmen, but rather from loyalty to my own country. lam a Scotsman" first, and a Britisher after. Scotland and England hay© proved a pood • combination. The difference in their temperament has been a blessing rather thin a drawback. I am perfectly certain that almost every Scotsman objects to be termed an Englishman. I do, and I hereby most emphatically protest against this growing habit of U3ing England and English instead of Britain and British. —I am, etc, C.WJS.