Library of Congress finds a map
BBC News has a funny story about the Library of Congress finding out a little about the outside world.
"One of the world's largest libraries has reversed a controversial decision to reclassify Scots authors as English."
"One of the world's largest libraries has reversed a controversial decision to reclassify Scots authors as English."
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whats funny now? just that the US doesn't see Scotland and the UK as distinct?
and there you have it all twisted up, which ilustraights the point
UK= United Kingdom :> "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the U.K., or Britain)
Or Great Britain or GB.
England, is a part of the UK.
So is Wales.
So is Scotland.
England, in no way, and never has, included scotland as part of it.
It would be like reclasifying Californian authors as Texan authors because the people needing to look up the Californian authors had never heard of California and had assumed they were all Texans.
Or doing it the other way around, because so few Texans were literate that the number of authors was tiny and didnt warrant its own category.
This any clearer? Need your own map?
Maybe Miss South Carolina was working at the "Library of Congress" at the time, or perhaps their classification system was so bad, they couldn't find their own maps. Or maybe their maps were burnt, as being heretical, for claiming there existed places outside th borders of the USA.
Speaking of Miss South Carolina, I ran across this the other day: http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/misssouthcarolina/female
I am so totally considering ordering one.
^ Awesome
Nice shirt. Haha.
I personally believe that all US Americans would, um want that shirt.
i personally believe that if a company is selling a tshirt for only $17.95 then someone somewhere is doing a lot of hard work for no money and we should globalificate the economy more better.
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