[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14324) Data: Grammar fix British -> Britons

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14324 >


On 2005-10-14, at 20.12, Christian Knoke wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14324 >
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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:34:31AM -0700, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
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>> A small grammar fix: Plural for British should be Britons.
>
> Wow, do you have a source for that? ODCE says the first meaning of  
> Britons
> is "inhabitant of S. Britain before the roman conquest" and second  
> "native
> or inhabitant of Great Britain".

Sure, it's both:

1 : a member of one of the peoples inhabiting Britain prior to the  
Anglo-Saxon invasions
2 : a native or subject of Great Britain

http://www.britannica.com/dictionary? 
book=Dictionary&va=briton&query=briton

> So Britons --> inhabitants and British -->
> people, where the latter fits more here - at least I think so. But I'm  
> none
> of these and not competent so. ;-)
>
> Christian
>
>

"British" is an adjective and I think we should use the nominal form  
"Briton" for plural, as is the case with Swedish/Swedes, Danish/Danes,  
Polish/Poles etc.

Daniel