This is the text of a recent complaint to the BBC [one of many]:"The BBC really must make more of an effort to stop using Britain as a synonym for England. They are not the same thing.
On the England news page this evening there is a story entitled "Rescued Briton abandons yacht". The leading paragraph says "A British yachtsman is forced to abandon his new yacht after suffering a fall during a solo Atlantic crossing". This is on the England page.
On the Scotland page there is no mention of the word Britain or any variation.
What there is though - and this is what is really quite ironic - is a story entitled "US library has change of heart over calling Scots authors English".
When will the BBC have a change of heart over calling English British?"
Check out the above - it happens all the time.
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