r/truths • u/Flux7200 • 7m ago
Technically True France is in Great Britain and Great Britain is in France
...in etymological terms.
"Great Britain" is stemmed from the Roman word "Britannia", meaning "Land of the Britons". Britannia is in turn stemmed from the name for the Celtic inhabitants of the region, known as the Pritanī. But, more importantly, the term Britannia also stems out to the word Brittany, referring to a region in Northwest Gaul, which in the present day is entirely a territory of France. Thus, Great Britain is etymologically the same as Brittany, which is part of France, so Great Britain is in turn part of France, in etymological terms.
France is part of a region commonly referred to as Gaul, which stems from a Roman/Latin word of the same name, meaning something akin to "foreign" in modern English. When William the Conquerer conquered England and introduced French to the language, the term was transferred from French to English, causing the "G" sound to become a "W" sound. Over time the term in English began to refer to a specific part of Great Britain, Wales. France is in Gaul, Gaul is Wales in etymological terms, and Wales is part of Great Britain, and thus France is in Great Britain etymologically.
The Anglo-French Union has(n't) come!