Originally Posted by
Highland Logan
I can't disagree with that either. But from personal experience as someone whom believes in and practises personal free agency, I've never used Brit, or the others as a negative, unless preceded with words inappropriate for the forum. The same would hold true for Christain names or Surnames. Without the prefix, it's just a word with no more meaning than as a description of origin.
The biggest use of a known insult on this site has always been Sassenach. Translated it is nothing more than Southerner. But it's intended meaning has always been as an insult to the English, no different than "come from away", which is common in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada.
A bit rambling and disjointed but I hope my point comes through.
Frank
I was under the impression that Sassenach meant Saxon as in Anglo-Saxon and was just the Gaelic word for the English.
The Gaelic word for England is Sasainn.
Descendant of the Gillises and MacDonalds of North Morar.
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