QUOTE(ulsterman @ Mon 21st June 2010, 2:32pm)
QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Mon 21st June 2010, 9:20pm)
Why is there so much edit warring over the boring subject of the British Isles.
Because there are a lot of single-minded Marxist fanatics out there. They imagine that the use of the term British Isles to refer to a group of islands that includes the Republic of Ireland denigrates the republic. Sheer nonsense of course.
Yes, it's rather more a historical term. Does anybody get upset that the Philippines no longer belong to Philip II of Spain, yet are still called that?