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Love how Brit archaeologists can barely stomach using the C word (Celtic), for political reasons, and have to use the phrase "Iron Age" instead. Imagine if they
by nephihaha 10mo ago
Love how Brit archaeologists can barely stomach using the C word (Celtic), for political reasons, and have to use the phrase "Iron Age" instead. Imagine if they treated the Romans like this, then they would have to refer to Roman Britain continually as "the Classical Period" or "Classical Britain". (Never mind that the Romans themselves were an Iron Age people.)
Being the BBC, they also have to note all the CBEs that certain individuals have. Got to honour that Royal Charter.
- ojo-rojo 10mo agoThis is my first time hearing the British don't like saying Celtic. (I'm from the U.S.) There must be some history there?
- ablation 10mo agoAs someone born, raised, and currently living in the UK, this is the first time I've heard of this. It's literally never come up or been an issue anywhere in the past 50 years I've been alive, and I've lived all over these isles. A bizarre OP.
- nephihaha 10mo agoIt has been remarked upon a lot in Wales and Ireland in articles. Not bizarre at all.
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- sherr 10mo agoSounds like rubbish to me. What "political reasons" do you mean? Don't be shy.
- The-Old-Hacker 10mo agoIronically, the Celtic tribe referred to were the Ancient Britons.