He is of or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He's definitely British. He might be English, too, of course. Just like someone might be both "Texan" and "American". Ed O.
The Texas American football team is going to be a favorite when that sport is introduced into the Olympics. California and Florida will also be tough. Anyhow, why is it Ireland has its own Olympic team, yet England, Scotland, and Wales have a combined team? Also, in meeting many people from the UK during my business career, I've yet to hear somebody refer to themselves as "British". It's typically "English", or "Welsh", or "Irish", and what I think sounds like "Scottish", but I can never quite understand the latter dialect.
I have not watched and do not actually know who won, but I have seen the Fighter and the Facebook movie on a plane on a recent international business trip - and seen True Grit in the theatre. True Grit was the better of these movies, but I enjoyed the Fighter as well.
The Island of Ireland is divided between Northen Ireland which is part of the UK and the rest which is it's own sovereign country (the republic of Ireland).
Yeah, I'm not sure what I was thinking. The loose 'US states versus countries in the UK' analogy ended up with me making a sloppy analogy.
He's Welsh and British. People who don't really care about distinctions within a single international state like the United Kingdom can say "British". Because otherwise we end up being wrong--like you when you claimed he was English. I'm willing, in this case, to sacrifice precision for accuracy. Ed O.
