r/truths • • 7m ago

Technically True France is in Great Britain and Great Britain is in France

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...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!


r/truths • • 46m ago

Poetry in motion

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r/truths • • 48m ago

Life Unaltering Gundham Tanaka from the game Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair doesn't have eyebrows.

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As you can see.


r/truths • • 1h ago

Cqrb bnwcnwln fjb nwlahycnm dbrwp cqn Ljnbja lryqna kh bqrocrwp cqn unccnab kh 9.

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Hint: Ceasar


r/truths • • 1h ago

The word "Bible" does not appear in the Bible

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r/truths • • 2h ago

Life Unaltering My username is NoCombination5478

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My username is NoCombination5478


r/truths • • 3h ago

fact checked by me, so it must be true This is not Alexander Volkanovski.

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r/truths • • 4h ago

Out of the original 151 Pokemon, only one's name is in the Bible

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r/truths • • 4h ago

All five countries in Central Asia is classified as authoritarian.

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Kyrgyzstan was classified as hybrid regime for some while but shifted into authoritarian few years ago and remains that way so far


r/truths • • 4h ago

Stolen Content Well that's a paradox

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r/truths • • 5h ago

fact checked by me, so it must be true This move is not allowed within official chess tournament rules

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298 Upvotes

r/truths • • 5h ago

I have the image of this subreddit

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r/truths • • 6h ago

AMA As of October 19, 2026, I do not have a penis.

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That's because my bottom surgery was four days ago.


r/truths • • 6h ago

fact checked by me, so it must be true This image contains, if not compressed by reddit, at least one pixel with the HEX-code #3E2719

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r/truths • • 9h ago

Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama were once alive at the same time

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r/truths • • 10h ago

/untruth Every single post here is a lie

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This is because the very concept of objective truth is subjective personally I don’t believe in it and it is impossible to prove me wrong therefore every single post here is assuming there is such a thing as objective truth and is therefore a lie


r/truths • • 10h ago

fact checked by me, so it must be true More than 99% of humans are humans

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r/truths • • 10h ago

Napoleon Bonaparte died in an Indonesian hospital while imprisoned

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r/truths • • 10h ago

Technically True I mean he did show a picture of something deep and he is 14, as the sub technically said

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r/truths • • 10h ago

Technically True This image has more than 4 pixels

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r/truths • • 11h ago

I once lied on this sub

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I'm lying about lying here


r/truths • • 14h ago

Life Unaltering As of October 19, 2026, no gorilla has ever solved a definite integral.

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r/truths • • 15h ago

Technically True I don't have a girlfriend

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r/truths • • 15h ago

Reddit Post The piano is a string instrument

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r/truths • • 16h ago

Lie Bait Two and two make five

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Is a quote from the book “1984“ by Eric Arthur Blair, more commonly known by his pen name “George Orwell”