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Except in 2014 Scotland's referendum was to remain in the UK. Scotland is a country too, so it's really quite different.
by isostatic 7y ago
Except in 2014 Scotland's referendum was to remain in the UK. Scotland is a country too, so it's really quite different.
- skrebbel 7y agoScotland is only a "country" by the UK's totally weird definition of the word. It's not that different from Niedersachsen or Alabama or, indeed, Catalonia in that it has its own parliament etc but it's not independent. In the UK (and in pro football, somehow), "country" appears to mean "either a member of the UN or a federal state of the UK"
- jsty 7y agoIf it is a weird definition, it's a well-recognised one. Take the second sentence of the relevant Wikipedia page: "A country may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country
- isostatic 7y agoYes, England's definition of the English word "country" includes Scotland That's not a weird definition by definition - English is what England defines it to be.