American Reacts to British Country Names Explained
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As an American I don't know much about British history. Today I am very interested in learning about how Britain got its name, and how all of the British countries got their names as well. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Btw, when my oldest began his six years at a school in DC, at aged 9, none of his classmates knew that the name America derived from a Florentine explorer who never came near North America! 😅
There has been a dispute about that for a long time. The other contender is that America was named after Richard Amerik (ap Meirig) who supposedly financed the voyages of John Cabot to find this "New World" and supplied his ship as well. This usually starts a major argument on TH-cam and I'm staying out of it.
I had no idea Christopher Columbus was a fop 😅
There is some disagreement over the origin of the name "America". The main contender is that it was named after Richard Amerik (ap Meirig) who gathered the finance for the voyages of John Cabot to look for this "New World". He even supplied the ship. Just saying.🤔
Yes. He was Amerigo Vespucci. Perhaps it should have been called Vespuccia. But since Vespucci in Italian sounds like big bad wasp, perhaps Ameri/go/ca was a better choice.😅 Incidentally, thr Cabots were also an Italian family known as Cabotta, but once in England they anglicised their name.
Fable is the video game set in Albion, possibly because the lead designer, Peter Molyneux is British himself.
Now I have a question: - so many people from the US (even the customs officials!) sneer "What's so 'great' about Britain?" & I've always thought they were just pissing about. But, seriously, do the people of the USA actually think that the "Great" in "Great Britain" means ...well.. great, fabulous, wonderful....? Bloody 'ell!!
They've been listening to Al Murray's 'Pub Landlord'. That and the biggest Empire the world has ever known.
Don’t forget the Celt tribes were here before the Anglo Saxons came. Don’t forget the Romans thought of us as barbarians , shaved quite often covered in wode a type of green body paint.
Well, without any context of a Little Britain (yes, I did that in purpose), there's no reason to assume that great means "big" (which is a less common use these days) and not "wonderful"
*cough* Healthcare *coughs*
@@jemmajames6719 Woad (not "wode") is the name of a blue (not green) dye produced from the leaves of the woad plant whose Latin name is Isatis tinctoria. There is no evidence whatsoever that the Celts painted themselves blue, although it is believed that they used it for making body tattoos. The belief that they painted their bodies is basically Hollywood fiction.
The Celts were a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe that shared a similar language, religious beliefs, traditions and culture. It is believed that the Celtic culture started to evolve as early as 1200 B.C. The Celts spread throughout western Europe-including Britain, Ireland, France and Spain-via migration. They were here a long time before the Romans.
11.15 Oh I should have just been patient and let the video play......you think!!!!!
Don’t bother commenting for Tyler. He has never liked or responded to a single comment since he started his channel.
We tend to converse amongst ourselves because Tyler triggers us so to do, thus we educate each other, 'on Tyler's behalf' in the 'half-hope' that he _may_ (someday?!) stray into the comments and _actually_ 'learn stuff' - as much from _us_, as from the videos to which he reacts! (If that makes sense?!) 🤔❤🏴😶🇬🇧🙂🖖
Is he obliged to like or respond to the comments on his channel?
What's the point of having the comments then if he not going to read them dumb
@@richiecleannot at all..
but it would be nice, once-in-a-while for him to actually acknowledge that he has a comment section
@@sambest8011 maybe he would be more willing to do so if the comment section wasn't full of people telling him how much of an ignorant American he is.
Tyler is just your average American who doesn't no a great deal about his own country never mind any other countries. He just lives a very insular life in his American bubble
Obviously spent too much time playing video games when growing up, and probably still does today, which is why he knows so little about the world. He also has the attention span of a flea.
@@ianwalker5842 never replies to any of the comments like most Americans can't take constructive criticism. He is just your average willfully ignorant American and believes he lives in the greatest country on earth. He has been spoon-fed this narrative all his life being willfully ignorant is how American politicians want their citizens to remain.
Know - not no.
You can't spell know, so don't criticise others.
@@ianwalker5842hate to break it to you but video games had nothing to do with it. It's the US education system that's fucked him up.
I grew up in the early 2000s with the UK education system. I also grew up with video games, and I knew all of this. As I should. They just don't teach this stuff in the US and it leads to brain dead individuals such as Tyler.
The Welsh language (Cymraeg) name for Wales is Cymru. This means "Land of Compatriots. The Romans called the country Cambria, the Land of the Cambrensis (a tribe). In Welsh, England is called Lloegr, which means "neighbour", and the English are Y Sais (the Saxons).
The German "Dialect of the Rogues and Travelling People" is called Rotwelsch, which translates itself again into "language of the compatriots". Apparently it was first mentioned (in print) in the late 15th century - i.e. a thousand years after all the naming done to the British provinces
I recently heard that the word Lloegr means something like "the lost lands"
The Scots also refer to the English as "Saxons" with both Scots English and Celtic versions.
Ok, Cymru doesn’t mean “land of compatriots” it means the country of the Cymry and Cymry which was originally spelled Cynmry is the plural of Cynmro and means the people of first existence, so Cymru means the country of the people of first existence, it also means the first fountain of existence; the original country.
Lloegr or Lloegyr to give it its proper spelling doesn’t mean neighbour, it literally means that opens or breaks out and referred to the part of Britain that was inhabited by the Belgiad, Belgiad was the Welsh name for one of the Welsh tribes and from which the Belgians get their name. The Belgiad were so called as they were ravagers and would overrun places they invaded and comes from the Welsh word Belg which means an overwhelming or bursting over.
The Belgiad spread into Northern Europe from Britain and overrun and ravaged anywhere they came across and so hence were named the Belgiad. They spread south and down towards what is now Italy and Roman territory and over time picked up languages and cultures along the way and they had a grasp of Latin and then as the Roman Empire grew and spread North, the Belgiad returned to Britain, this would have been a couple of centuries before the Roman invasion of Britain and when they returned they were different, still technically Welsh but they had been exposed to different cultures and languages and so were seen as a break away group. The Belgiad spread west over time and so hence Lloegyr referred to the part of Britain in which the break away tribe inhabited, hence the name Lloegyr to convey the fact they were a break away tribe.
The Belgiad would spread to Ireland where they got a footing in the country and were referred to as the Firbolgs. They contributed heavily to the population by mixing with the earlier colonists and hence the greater affinity of the Irish with the Latin, in the words common to both and so hence the large amount of words of Teutonic origin in the Irish language.
Lloegyr referred to the parts of what is now England that were south of the Humber, excluding what is now Wales, Cornwall, Devon and Cumbria but now it just generally refers to England and the Saxons are called Y Saeson, Sais is a Saxon, singular
Sais is the Welsh for, that is still; quiet; soft
Wow! Thanks for that.@@Penddraig7
Tyler " I should just let the video play" If only!
We can dream 😅
To be fair, he's a reactor, it's kind of his job to interrupt.
I think letting it get to the end might have been useful.
There is a further explanation of Wales and Welsh, which is not about slaves, but about speaking differently.
And that term is used across Germanic Europe, for people whose language we don't understand..
Could he react AFTER each point rather than guessing BEFORE?
He needs to stop every video mid sentence so he can make the video last at least 20 mins... He also needs to get in all that fake laughing and blinking...
I am a Scotsman born and bred living in England and I found this very interesting and educational. thanks for this Tyler. Your genuine interest in learning about our culture and history is refreshing
The problem bneing - he doesn't learn, it goes in one ear & out the other.
@@LazmanarusNo. He's just perfected the 'dumb American TH-camr' persona and people fall for it constantly, he plays as dumb as possible, acts like he's never heard things he's heard loads of times and waits for all the insulting comments to roll in, getting views and comments without having to even bother interacting with any of us 😂 pretty bright if you think about it. He's playing everyone. He knows British people can't resist getting pissed off and correcting the 'stupid' American constantly. He knows us too well.
He has no interest. He does this to make money. Just like he does with his Canada and Norway channels.
He's never once replied to his comments or shown any sign that he even reads them mate.
You never heard of Rule Brittania...I really need to speak to your history teacher from your school days!! 😂
US schools generally only teach US history.
Britannia, not Brittania. Simple, really.
Why would you expect a non Brit to know that? And why do you care more about that than spelling Britannia correctly?
Why would you expect him to know about it? Most US-Americans barely know anything about their own country, never mind others!
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517umm because he is American, without Britain and its ruling of the waves you wouldn’t exists nor would You Tube let alone the USA
FFS! Is England called England because they speak English? Off to a great start!
I mean - there's no reason why someone from another part of the world should know this specific stuff about UK history - but Tyler seems surprised by the concept of there BEING an origin story for why these countries and regions are called what they are called.
I mean, yesterday he was boggled at the fact ‘roast potatoes’ are potatoes that had been roasted. His reactions seem very staged.
If you basically want his doppelgänger u should check out ‘ryan wuzer’, he’s still very American but he’s a bit more switched on up there.
*I think they might even be brothers.
@@NK-bj8li They are twins. Actually Ryan used to really piss me off more than Tyler, for different reasons. He seems to have improved though.
I nearly had a stroke listening to that 😮😮😮
@@carolineskipper6976Ryan is far more thoughtful IMO and not so fake..not this over-acting, silly prattling nonsense.
@@nolajoy7759 He seems to be now- at first he came over as arrogant, and wound me up.
I don't think anyone in their right mind would think a nation would be named just randomly or "by accident"..it's ancient history, not a video game.
What about that cartagropher Americo Vespucci - sounds very random to me, to name whole continents after any random guy - just like Europa, a kidnapped girlfriend of the highest god of ancient Greece phanteon...
@@LisaBeta-42 And no country is named after someone's first name. Vespucci's first name was actually Albericus anyway.
Just google it: Amerigo Vespucci (/vɛˈspuːtʃi/ vesp-OO-chee,[1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1451 - 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, whose name the term "America" is derived from. @@Poliss95
@@LisaBeta-42 That would be two continents: North AND South America.
a few days ago tyler watched a video about england invading other countries; at the very beginning of which was the list of invasions of france.
it seems tyler has completely forgotten that he watched it.
Shocker!.
I think at the end of this video Rob goes on to say that the word used to mean slaves or foreigner also means "the people who speak a different language". It is used in that context all over Europe as shown by the examples in the video. For example the Walloons in Belgium. I love RobWords videos. been a subscriber for a long time.
The names of most peoples mean either The People, or the Other People ... depending who coined the name ...
You need to listen to the song rule Britania
Rob Words is the man !
It was very interesting - Maybe you should start to link the videos you are watching in the information.
Is England called England because they speak english?... OK
🤯🤯🤯🤯
Convergent evolution.
The Great in Great Britain, when referring to the landmass, references the largest island in the group, as opposed to Great Britain in the long name, which refers to the political agglomeration of England, Wales and Scotland, including all their respective islands.
RobWords is an amazing channel :) Why are you not linking to the original videos in your video descriptions? Just curious.
Don't be so dull the language is called English because it comes from England!
seems pretty obvious doesn’t it
He also thinks that Labrador in Canada is named after the dogs and not the other way around.
Brittany is a former duchy and cultural region of North West France. It has never been part of the British State, but its name shares the same etymology as Britain. As the narrator explains, it might be that the Island of Great Britain is so named when compared to the much smaller Brittany - which the French have at times referred to as Little Britain; though I suspect the comparison in more likely to be with the other large island within the British Isles, which is Ireland.
Don't say this to anyone who is Irish ... they will forcefully deny it ... but it was coined by the Romans who didn't care ...
Britain/England used to own large chunks of France thans to the Normans invading Britain, but not leaving their French territory, and a long time and quite a few marriages later, for a brief period the English king held nearly as much territory in France as the french King ... The Hundred Years War was one of the results ...
I don't know how true this is, but legend has it that Brittany was settled by migrants from Cornwall, fleeing the invading Anglo-Saxons, which will be why their languages are similar.
@@davidioanhedges"Great Britain" was actually coined by the Greeks and "Little Britain" was the name for Ireland in that particular ancient book.
Greco-Egyptian Claudius Ptolemy referred to the larger island as great Britain (μεγάλη Βρεττανία megale Brettania) and to Ireland as little Britain (μικρὰ Βρεττανία mikra Brettania) in his work Almagest (147-148 AD).
Ing was an old norse god too. Makes you wonder if there was a connection, Ings land maybe?
Great video, i really enjoyed it, i knew quite a bit of it but i learned a few new things, thanks.
Most Americans don't know much outside of America. But this guy is willing to learn good on him .
Are you new here?, Tyler doesn't learn anything, it goes in one ear and out the other.
While I get that Tyler doesn't always know what some may take as basic Geography and History and we get frustrated about others in America that don't surely the big question needs to be about the American school system rather than blaming the people who were apparently let down by it. It's clearly not a universal thing either as some Americans are much more knowledgeable.
It actually makes me want to look into the history of the American school system and why things are the way they currently are. I do remember hearing about them just wanting to educate people who could work in Americas factories, so they keep them comparatively under educated.
Or maybe it's because the American school system prioritises American history in it's curriculum, rather than British History, just as the curriculum in English schools prioritises English history, to the point that English pupils are taught very little about Scottish history prior to the unification of the Crowns, whereas Scottish pupils learn a great deal.
It's impossible to teach children the entirety of history, I dare say you were taught very little about the Baltic Empire at school, for example, and wouldn't take kindly to someone from Sweden complaining about your lack of knowledge and lamenting the inadequacy of the British school system if you decided to educate yourself on the subject.
@@richieclean I actually do think it would help a lot of children growing up to get a much history the world as a whole. While I did have reasonable education of certain periods of history. The main history High remember from High School was the Jacobite Rebellion, and World War 2. Plus watching "How We Used to Live" in Primary School looking at the family as far as I remember coming up to the first world war. We did do a project on Native Americans in Primary School, but given that was in the early 80's I don't think it was called that then. But I do remember I was interested in learning about other cultures. Honestly it's been since leaving High School that my understanding of History has grown the most. Honestly I'm frustrated that I didn't get more of an overview when I was younger, as I love learning about it now.
@@Loulizabeth Of course it would help to give children as much education in history as possible, but there are other subjects that are just as important, if not more so, like maths, literacy, science etc. And there are only so many hours in a school day, and only so many school days in a year so a balance needs to be struck.
Therefore, contrary to your original assertions, the fact that this guy is ignorant of the etymology of place names for an entirely different country from his own, is not indicative of the failure of the education system he grew up in. And what might seem obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to everyone.
Education doesn't stop when school stops, and if you enjoy learning history on your own terms that's cool. The fact that your formal education imbued you with enough curiosity to learn more off your own back is testament to its success rather than its failure. So how about you just commend the guy for sharing the same curiosity about other cultures that you have, instead of picking fault with his lack of knowledge or supposedly sub-standard education?
@@richieclean I get the feeling how I expressed what I was thinking originally wasn't great. The reason I made my original comment is that I've seen so many others previously attack Ryan for his lack of knowledge on a lot of subjects, so I was trying to point to perhaps encourage people to not simply blame the student, nor even to blame the teacher but to look to the reasons for whatever gaps he might have. I'm aware in saying that, that I, and others, also have gaps in our knowledge of things too. I was anything but the straight 'A' student at school.
I am aware that there are other important subjects that children and young people need to know. All I'm saying is that during the time that is set aside for history class an initial overview of history around the world might be helpful. So that the students can then see how more specific historical events fit into the wider context. I wasn't trying to say that the teaching of history should become the major subject being taught in detriment to other important subjects.
I understand that these days, and often in TH-cam comments people can make comments just to be difficult and argumentative, that was in no way my aim to Ryan or yourself. I apologize if that's the way it came across.
Just think, if it had been called Saxonland, the north eastern US would now be called New Saxonland!
And thus, with the oft-times weirdly pronounced vowels of English words, could possibly sound out 'Saxonland' perhaps like New Zealanders do... (Awkward?! - "Sexinlind" perhaps?!)🤔😶
In Irish Gaeilge and Scots Gaidhlig (close sister languages) England is Sasana, ie Saxony. Hence in both the term for English Man, Woman, Thing) is Sasanach, a word anglicised in Scotland as Sassanach.
England is the country where the language formed and evolved into modern English.
rule brittania brittania rules the waves england never never will be slaves
_Britannia_ ... (_not_ Brittania)
@@brigidsingleton1596he also spelt his username wrong. I believe it should be @garybellend2077
... and it's not "England": it's "Britons".
It's Britons not England and it's just never, not never never. What would you expect from someone who's apparently never heard of punctuation and doesn't know about capitalisation and spelling.
Daneland I think has to do in the north. Coming to England from Daenmark Vikings
The area was known as the Danelaw.
thanks that was what I was thinking of saying but couldn't fully remember but I do know it was in Northumbria the first raid happened@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138
The Danelaw was the parts of England/Scotland rules by Danish/Swedish/Norwegian kings ... it was ~ 50% of Great Britian ...
yea but it was mostly the Danish vikings going to England@@davidioanhedges
@@TrymTH-camMainChannelCnut was simultaneously the king of Denmark, Norway, and Scotland/England/Danelaw at the same time ... and was heavily related to all the other kings in Scandinavia, England, and Normandy ...
He was not a Viking... nor were most of the Scandinavians in Britain at that time ...
Tyler, I love watching your vids (as well as the Canadian channel) even though the reactions seem somewhat staged. However, maybe it’s just me but man you pause a lot!
I completely understand that that’s the point of reaction channels, to pause, give their thoughts and resume the video, but you’re pausing at such a rapid paste that you’re missing info and with that, getting confused. Plus the video itself doesn’t feel like it flows when you do that.
By all means, continue with the pausing (again, it’s the whole point of reaction videos) but maybe instead of pausing after every sentence, maybe pause after each section e.g. after the whole section on England, pause and say your bit and play the video, pausing again after the Welsh part and so on. But if you do pause just randomly, then please go back 5-10 seconds on the vid so you don’t end up missing points.
No hate, just constructive criticism 🤙🤙
He doesn't read Comments unfortunately so doesn't "learn".
@@nolajoy7759
Haha, yeah just realised 😅
He doesn't learn anything, so he can put the same video up next year and pretend it is all new to him
Who are the angles?
In your case: not the scalene, but the OBTUSE.
Nope ...still not saying anything worth saying , you are indeed a sad act
Trolls gotta troll.
@tmac160 yeah but there are clever funny ingenious trolls , and 9 years olds
😅😅😅
The name ultimately likely derives from the Proto-Celtic nasal stem *Albiyū (oblique *Albiyon-) and survives in Albain (genitive Alban) in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh and Cornish. The name usually refers to Great Britain as a whole.
About the Angles and Saxons: There are regions in England even today named after them: East Anglia and Middle Anglia after the Angles, and Wessex, Sussex and Essex, those mean West Saxon, South Saxon, and East Saxon, respectively.
Fable was such a dope series.
He's wrong about "Eng-" - engrave is pronounced like that, too. FWIW, the Welsh and Scots call the English language "Saxon" - Saesneg in Welsh and Sassenach in Scots. "Saxon" is also the origin of several county names - Sussex, Essex, etc for the Southern Saxons and Eastern Saxons. And the name Britannia is still used for the personification of the UK, much like Uncle Sam is used for the United States. Many old British coins had an image of Britannia, a warrior woman with a shield and trident, on them.
Wasn't Britannia taken from the Iceni Queen, Boudicca?
listen to what he said again.
"Eng is pronounced ING."
engrave is EN-GRAVE not ENG-rave or even ING-GRAVE
@@brigidsingleton1596 Not sure - it's possible
Yeah the thing that bends your mind is, History! We have lots of it 😉
Angles is the English name. The Welsh say Saesneg and Scottish say Sassenachs, which mean Saxons.
What do you think, the Word "Slavic" comes from?
You maybe suprised who invented Slavery, and who ended it, in a Historical View.
Peace
Slavery was used in the beginning of History, may be before. So who you think invented it ? are you more advised than Archeologists ?
Hi Tyler, here in Cymru we call English, the language, SAESNEG, meaning the language of the saxons! So if an English person is being spoken to in fantasy (welsh) all they have to say is " Saesneg os gwelwch yn dda" , (translates as it you please ) and the speaker will repeat what was said in English. Most people in Cymru understand English apart from the very young, preschool or the very old; most of the Welsh speakers are in the North and West and in the rural inland areas. Most of the English only speakers are in the border areas and in the heavily industrial areas of the South Wales valleys where There was a lot of immigration from other parts of the British isles.
The real question is: What about Saxons and the Saxophone? ^^
Named after it's inventor Adolph Sax I believe.
The inventor's name was Adolph Saxe. Late 19th century invention.
And he was Belgian, in case anyone's wondering.
My surname, Barnett is an Anglo-Saxon and Old French surname that came after the Norman Invasion. The original Anglo-Saxon spelling is baernet which means "the clearing of woodland by burning". i do like fires strange that. The surname Barnett was first found in Herefordshire just short drive away, travel that way alot. The singular name Bernadus was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. lot our surnames have lots history
In France, we sometimes use Albion when talking "badly" of England, in the phrase "Perfide Albion" (litt. perfidious Albion).... A remainder of centuries of antagonism between France and England... 🙂
We just use the term "France" when talking "badly" of France. For the same reason.😊
Heh heh heh... Correct answer. 😊
@@araptorofnote5938LOL... Irony.
Like most rivalries it is mostly because we are neighbours, have been for a very long time, and have so much in common, but are distinct ...
He could have done Rob the courtesy of watching to the end of his video if he hadn't, as usual, wasted so much time pausing to speculate and wonder about things that would be explained shortly after he hit play again. There were only a couple of minutes to go, FFS!! And he never puts a link to the original video in his description, crediting the creator. The word "exasperating" immediately springs to mind when I think of Tyler, along with others that I'll leave to your imaginations...
18:30 is anyone else irked that he had 3 minutes left on the video 😤
The Scots were a people of Ireland who invaded Caledonia from the 5th century. The Scythian connection is a myth, through confusion with Scandinavia, which more likely had a connection with people in Britain & Ireland. Britain, the large island, comes from the Roman name. This was Britannia Magna, the large island. Britannia Minor was NOT Brittany, but originally Ireland, as the smaller island, that is 'lesser Britannia'. Brittany got it's name after the 5th century, with a migration of Britons to there, making it 'Little Britain'. Albion, an ancient name for Britain, was retained in the northern part of Scotland as Alba into the medieval period, until totally taken over by the term Scotland. Wales is related to the word Gaul, or Gael, only incidentally close to the English word for slave or foreigner, so the latter is not the reason for the name of the country. The Welsh Cymru comes ultimately from the Latin 'companion', for a countryman.
Hi Tyler,
If you had completed the video, there was a further explanation of the meanings of Wales and Welsh and Cymru, which references the languages spoken.
Its no where near as dark as you might think.
A place, however small or large, has probably had many different forms due to dialects and language change. The Saxons' name is present in the names Essex, Sussex and Wessex. Then two of the states in modern Germany are named after the Saxons: Saxony (Sachsen) and Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). Furthermore, the Saxons are behind the Finnish name for Germany: Saksa.
FYI : Rob Watts, the presenter, used to work for the BBC before moving to Germany and starting his information channel about language and history of words.
also quick fact, brittany has a ferry system that goes (from what i know) britian, possibly the british ils, spain and brittany called brittany ferries
Britain and Isles. Does everybody just not care about bloody punctuation and grammar anymore?. Also should be capitalised and country names are always spelt with a capital letter too.
1:47 Ing and Ing is the same god as the god of Fertility
in "The Faith of Asa". One of the gods of the Viking age.
In Scandinavia, there are male names such as Ingvar Ing + var. var= protection.
Ingmar, Ingmund. Female name Ingeborg. Ing + Borg. Borg = fortress. More female names are Ingalill (little Inga), Inger.
react to a vid about Cornwall bro, nice content :)
Wallonia and Wallis in Switzerland also come from that word for foreign(er). The Dutch word koeterwaals means gibberish (Waals is the Dutch word for Wallonian French).
I had no idea about the name for Wales !!!
be great if you do a video on the isle of wight UK - only hovercraft passanger service in the world - jurasic hot spot - great place
Jurassic* 🏴❤️🖖
It's passenger and be should be capitalised. Punctuation too ffs.
life a get - rearrange@@scottneil1187
Bless your heart. If you think that's strange, look up Germany's history, and ask why the French word for Germany is Allemagne
do a video reaction of the song called "Rule Britania", it would be very cool and it was a official militery song, might still be and sadly, not our national anthem as the one we have right now is boring as hell
Until 1921 all of Ireland was part of the UK. But there was an uprising in 1916 that lasted until Ireland was divided in 1921 in to Southern and Northern Ireland. A majority of those in Northern Ireland where protestant and did not want to be under the rule of an Irish Catholic government.
I always thought it came from the Romans, Britannia. America's name came from a map maker called John Amerik a Welsh man it was his name on the early maps from English going out with the Cod fleet when cod was eight foot long and weighs of 800 to 1000 lbs fish was heard of, way back in the middle to late 15th century when they drew pictures of men walking on the backs of these cod. When English tried out new navigating equipment, more new accurate and ahead of it's time timepieces pocket watches which would lose half or a minute a day or more for that century, knowledge of course and distance was the key to (latitude and longitude or a good guess work within hundred nautical miles or not you were) from a new lands that only the Norsemen had traveled to some 350/ 400 years before John Amerik maps. From special recordist on board these fishing ships going on the ice pack to collect ice for the cod with drawings and contouring landmarks, peoples and animals. Because his name was printed on most of these maps, they took it out to sea with them, the next time they saw land they used his name from his maps it's more plausible than the other person name. And remember if your, not royal ,that's why ,you have places with George and Edward are king's and some of old kings before them then you get name changes rename this or that. Then your second name or surname is a given Amerik not John) and new lenses helping with mapping landfall plus also they knew that the world was round
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Unfortunately, a lot of Americans not only don't know about Northern Ireland, but they also "know" that all of Ireland is a part of the UK, and call us British too.
Sorry. You are not correct. People on the island of Ireland do not consider themselves to be British. And although there is a British enclave (about one sixth of the island's landmass) in the northeast, only about half of its population identify as British. The rest of the island's people maintain a separate, but friendly relationship with the sister island, Britain.
@@xotan I already know that. I am from the Republic of Ireland and have lived here for my entire life. There's a reason the word "know" is in quotation marks.
@@ShizuruNakatsu My apologies. I missed the quotation marks.
@@xotan Oh, don't worry about it. My point was that I've had some Americans argue with me, insisting that Ireland is still part of the UK and all Irish people are also British. I know not all Americans are so ignorant and arrogant, but I don't understand why some insist on arguing when they're wrong - with a person *from* the place in question, no less. My original comment was basically just expressing that frustration 😅
Old English for Scotland was pronounced Shotland.
Alba - white, the Latin root for "albinism". Albatross - large white bird. English language is formed from mainly "building blocks" of Latin and Greek, Germanic and French roots, etc. Not "random"! I wonder if Tyler knows why America is called "America" or if he knows the original names the indigenous people gave it? 🤔
I recommend you to look up the origins of the words albatross. It has nothing to do with white. It derives from an Arabic bird name "al-catraz" which originally means a gannet, a common seabird in the Atlantic. "Al" in Arabic just means "the".
Oh..so not the white bird? Ok. Still, is Latin root for white and used in medical terminology @@missharry5727
@@missharry5727 yes..I was wrong re the bird.
It is not only Britain that is named after the various tribes that inhabited the lands throughout history.
The same applies to the United States (and most countries in the world) as well where many of the towns, rivers, regions and states are named after Native American tribes that inhabited them. States like Alabama, Tennessee and Missouri. In addition many of the remaining place names are derived from descriptions in a Native American language. Mississippi means "great river" for example
The 'Great' in "Great Britain" has nothing whatsoever to do with Brittany. It has always been normal to attach the word 'Great' to the largest island in an island group. The British Isles consists of a large number of islands of various sizes, Ireland being the seond largest and Great Britain being the largest - hence the name 'Great Britain'.
The exact reason that British rule decided to adopt the term GB was to differentiate it from Britany.
What you're saying is totally inaccurate. You're talking about ancient times when a couple of cartographers may or may not have referred to Ireland as Little Britain. But that all died out, and the term "British Isles" didn't exist back then. It was Britania and Hibernia.
British Isles started to be used in the 16th century as a loose term for the islands, it's not an official term though
My god you love your own voice, so happy I don't live in your house I would never get a word in what like what like.
The one thing I expected to hear in this video was that just as the name England is "the land of the Angles", the names of Essex, Sussex and Wessex (who Would end up ruling Britain) mean "the Saxons on the East of the land", "the Saxons on the South", and "the Saxons on the West", which were separate Kingdoms... It wasn't a sexual thing either 😉
Great video tho...
The names of England and Wales basically means 'us' and 'them'
Countries weren't so well defined by borders back then and were mostly aligned to where people spoke the same languages
the game is called fable
So... Tyler cannot even be bothered to get to the end of the videos he's reacting to now? Blimey. And wait 'til he finds out that all human people actually originally came from Africa. It will blow his mind. Or manas. Or mens.... Or gemynd.
What the Romans referred to as 'Britannia' corresponds more or less to present-day England. They called present-day Scotland 'Caledonia' (north of Hadrian's Wall, built 'to separate the Romans from the barbarians', according to Tacitus).
Albion is now reserved for particularly disappointing football clubs!
Baggies or the Seagulls?
No. Burton.
Tyler is a nice enough guy, but he does not have a clue about how languages operate and develop. Sooo limiting. Guess that comes from never having been exposed to any other language but your own. Great learning to all of us - make your children learn a foreign langues or 2, that will be so beneficial to their development as human beings....
It's like the Australian animal kangaroo when the early explorers asked, what was that animal called and the locals said, "I don't know" and they were nomads and they were not from that area it's a bit like the Manhattan island story how the Dutch bought it from a tribe not from there with glass beads a few mirrors and a blanket or two, and when the British met up with another tribe they said, kangaroo that's the story whether it's true or not I don't know. But it sounds good though. Angles and angleland was taught to me in history back in the seventies and then the blacks in my school didn't want to learn this about white history they wanted their own. So facts being facts they were taught that some black history and they didn't want or like because their families had said something of the opposite that all blacks were the victims we got a TV chef who's ancestors owned slaves and brothels for the sailors who came into port on the Islands and he's black west Indian and when he found out he said allegedly where's has all his families money gone they owned part of a street back then with shops and one was a senior police officer. When told by teachers at my school that some African kings sent their own people to control some of the trade of slaves to the west indies were slave owners were black over black slaves with plantation's for 70 years or more and they were brokers to the west indies back in the late 1700's to the early 1800's and blacks owners of slaves in America black slave owners also that fought for the south against the north
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The country was called Britain long before it became England, Scotland, Wales etc. The Greek explorers in the 4th century BC, were told the names of the British Isles from the natives, who were the Pretanike, which became Britannia in Roman days. Great Britain was the larger island, contain England, Wales & Scotland.
Lesser Britain was Ireland, the island a bit smaller than Great Britain. Many centuries later Brittany, which is little Britain, got the name because many Britons migrated there at the time when the English were invading England. Scythia in ancient days extended in the mind of the ancient people all across the north of Europe beyond the Roman & Greek Empires, which included Scandinavia, known as Scania, close enough to Scythia for this to sound logical. Albion, or Alba is another ancient name for Great Britain. Ierne is an ancient name for Ireland. The word 'Wales' is related to the ancient name of France & it's people the Gauls.
The name Britain didn't exist in ancient times, only early variations of it, and they were purely geographic. They all died out for centuries. The names were exonyms. They didn't come from the natives.
Britain, as we know it today, didn't come about until the 18th century when England Scotland joined.
Some cartographers referred to Scotland as lesser Britain. We only have interpretations of all these ancient namings.
British Isles was coined in 1570, a political imperial concept. John Dee, who coined the term, did look back on ancient terms for the name. It's not an official term, though, only a loose one. Ireland doesn't use it, nor does it refer to its island as an Isle, unlike Britain.
British Islands is the only official term.
@@zuppymac-xi8rk You are wrong. The Greeks got the name Pretanike from the natives of the islands, as that of the people & their lands, which became Britannia in Latin to the Romans. Magna Britannia referred to the larger island, & Britannia Minor meant Ireland, being a bit smaller. This is analogous to Minorca & Majorca in the Balearics.
The Province, later Diocese, of Britannia, was that part of the islands controlled by Rome, but the remainder was still Britain. In just the same way as Roman Germania was a Province but Germania existed beyond the area controlled by Rome at the same time. Great Britain is not a value judgement saying there's something wonderful about the larger island, but purely descriptive of the larger island in apposition to it's smaller neighbour. One cannot have a 'Great Britain' without a 'smaller Britain ', & that must be Ireland. The Irish cannot deny that they live in the British Isles, with any more sense than saying they are not part of Europe. Perhaps they want to rename the whole planet to remain detached from England, well maybe they could make a ' New Ireland' in the US, after all there is a New England there.
@danielferguson3784 I think you must mean 'Pritani', which is an old name for some of the people known to live there. Or maybe you do mean 'Pretanike', but that just meant Britain.
Britannia - name given by the Romans that wasn't even all of Britain. Wasn't Ireland at all. That was Hibernia.
These are foreign names. They don't decide! And all these names died out. Completely. We're not using any of them today.
Great Britain - 'Great' was added to differentiate it from 'Brittany', which was known by them as 'Lesser Britain'. It has nothing to do with Ireland 😄
Sure Scotland was also referred to in ancient writings as the 'minor' and the south ' major'. All these writings are vague.
European is a neutral term. British Isles is not because it was created in the 16th century as a colonial and political term. And you keep calling Irish people British when they're not.
You all keep talking about ancient terms, but you didn't even use these terms. Ever. Not until the 16th century were new terms inspired by old ones but with completely new meanings.
Now you're saying the Irish should use it. Even though you didn't use the ancient ones yourself 😄
No, the Irish do not need to accept any term. The UK government has even stopped using it. Ireland refers to itself and its islands as islands. Britain refers to itself and its islands as Isles.
Remember that for example you probably call the country in Europe next to France - Germany and the people and language they speak German ....
They call themselves Deutsche speak Deutsche and live in Deutschland ...
The people living in the country west of England call themselves Cymry who speak Cymraeg, and live in Cymru ... but in English it is the Welsh people speak Welsh in Wales ...
What is the origin of the word America?
Thanks.
Americ, Amerrique, or Amerique is the name in Nicaragua for the high land or mountain range that lies between Juigalpa and Libertad, in the province of Chontales, and which reaches on the one side into the country of the Careas Indians, and on the other into that of the Ramas Indians. In a word, the name Americ is American.
Why is a fish called a fish?
And why was one called Wanda?
Their favourite hymn is "Rule Britatania" 🤣 Just watch clips of "The Last night of the proms"
So the Angles and the Saxons came to the big island and called the people "foreigner" and probably pushed them to the western end of the island, so that part is now called Wales... even though they are linked to the Bretons from Brittany, and were likely the original "brits". Interesting!
he is not strictly correct in his history, the 3 most powerful tribes were jutes angles and saxons but the frisians also came from holland and belgium. not the jutes setting out from frisia. also his map of early tribal areas is slightly wrong. Jutes settled Kent, then angles did have the north and east (northumberland, mercia and anglia (east anglia). then the saxons wessex, middlessex, sussex, essex. in short he gave a little to much land to the Angles. So the English can trace their tribal roots if they can trace far back to which county their ancestors came from. Also, it was many years till it became England, it was a group of separate kingdoms (the seven kingdoms) but Mercia and Northumberland were most powerful and generally allied. Therefore the most powerful grouping was Angles
10:52 yes thats correct and Antarctica was called Australia before Australia took its name.
its still can be called Britannia
James Thomson: Rule Britannia
When Britain first, at heaven's command,
Arose from out the azures main,
This was the charter, the charter of the land,
And Guardian Angels sang this stain:
Rule Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never will be slaves.
Cause the Romans called us Britannia(Britain)
'Welshing' on a debt.
Literally a song called rule britannia
Wrong about abolishing the word Wales. Cymru (come-ree) is the original name and the Cymraeg (Welsh) for the northern part of the UK is Alban (now Scotland). Cymraeg is probably the oldest language on this island, a similar tonge is found in Cornwall and Brittany. The Viking, Roman, Dutch and German, coupled with Saxons and Norman invaders have contaminated (some say enriched) the English language but Cymraeg has been accidentally preserved due to the encapsulation of Cymru whose people were restrained behind a ditch built by the Roman governor, Offa. The Romano-Saxons (Y Sais) being the "Master Race" (aka The First Reich) loved to conquer and enslave so called the natives Welsh, not unlike members of the 3rd Reich. There is a rising movement in my country to revert to our original name, Cymru.
Cornwall is angle saxon for Kernow Wales. Kernow is the celtic name for Cornwall. The anglo saxons also considered us a foreigners.
Angles their a cute people.
Nice wordplay! I do like cute Angles acutely.
The Irish word for England is Sasana and the people Sasanach - derived from Saxon. For reasons I don't understand the Irish word for the language, English, is Bearla.
Béarla is the Irish word for foreign language, if I remember correctly. Generally it is used referring to English only. However there is another term, Sacs- Béarla, i.e. Saxon foreign language, which is the one I generally use when speaking/writing in Irish.
Oh there'll always be an England, no matter how it's spelt, for even if you spell it wrong, it sounds like how you felt.
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From. Breton
This guy is actually incredibly intelligent he is just trolling guys and making fat stacks from your views and comments
And he has many channels $$$..and has to do so little too. No research, no responses...just act dumb, wind people up and pretend you care about whichever country you are currently reacting to. 😅 jokes on us, really
Nobody is calling the Welsh Cymru. That is THEIR name. You cannot expect people to just change their own language to accommodate you, that isn't how this works. Different countries have different names for different things. I don't see the Slavic people complaining about being Slavs despite that name being the origin of the word "slave." I haven't heard any Slavs demanding that a new word for slave must be found.
What happened happened, people need to stop acting like babies and choosing to rewrite history because they don't like the origin of something.
Are you Chinese as your avatar suggests, not a dis just saying.
The Welsh football team are changing their name to Cymru, Netherlands and Turkey have just done the same.
I believe it was the other way round, The word 'slave' comes from the Slavs as huge numbers of Slavs were enslaved, thought to have begun by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD
@@ElunedLaine Whoops, I meant that. I worded it poorly, I'll change it.
@@dib000 And no one will respect the name change for at least 50 years. The word Turkiye what they changed the name to has a letter that doesn't even exist in the English language so expecting English speakers to just accept that change is ludicrous.
You do realise that America has lots of other names. Each country calls it something different!
This why you. Would classed as an Anglophile
When Romans invaded, they met ppl painted blue, wode.
Cymru is Welsh not english
Yes! Cornwall is Kernow not Cornwall also.
It's weird how you didn't finish watching the video.
How does one do a video a day for two years and still know so very little... ??
Scotland comes from. Greek meaning dark place this guy is getting things wrong.