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The 2012 Olympic Games to be held here are to be staged in French as the prime language

Even the Union Jack will be 5th down the flagpole

London residents will also require "behaviour modification"

http://londonist.com/2010/12/french-is- ... ympics.php

The word Great in Great Britain doesn't mean Great as in good. It comes from refering to a geographical area.

The comments to the link are worth a read.

durhamshrimp wrote:The word Great in Great Britain doesn't mean Great as in good. It comes from refering to a geographical area.

Well we've lost a lot of geographical area as well!

Peter wrote:The comments to the link are worth a read.

It's like Eurovision all over again. Makes my blood boil!! Grrrr!

marky No.1 wrote:

durhamshrimp wrote:The word Great in Great Britain doesn't mean Great as in good. It comes from refering to a geographical area.

Well we've lost a lot of geographical area as well!

Yup, Britain is the British Isles. The largest island is therefore Great Britain.

I have no objections to having another language used on signs etc but There are certainly more useful languages to use than French.

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NOTHERN IRELAND OMG YEAH WOW

So, does that make IOM Little Britain

Would explain alot

Normally I'd be patriotic.
But in 2012 all WE, THE UK TAX PAYER are is host, a cash cow, for yet another load of free loaders.

morecambe mick wrote:So, does that make IOM Little Britain

Would explain alot