Tuesday, 18 January 2011

The people of Britain(rewrite)

We have four nation in the Britain,they are England ,Wales ,Scotland,Ireland.Chinese called the British yingguoren.It means the people who nationality is Britain.We named the british yangguizi in the past years ,but with the relationship between China and Britain is getting better,Chinese do not name British in this way anymore.I consider weslh people is most friendly in Britain.Irish have the heavest pununciation ameng this four nation.
Dragon of cadwallader flag is represent Wales.St. David is a patron saint of Wales, his flag with a yellow cross on black background is a symbol of Wales too.The leek is a vegetable, Welshmen wore it in battles.The daffodil is a yellow spring flower. The national flower of the Scots is the purple thistleThe Lion Rampant, a red standing lion, is the symbol of the Scottish monarch.

the red rose and the Three Lionscrest is the symbols flag of England.
1 March is St David's Day ,it is wales’s national day. 17 March is St Patrick's Day,it is national day of Northern Ireland. 23 April - The national day of England is St George's Day. 30 November is  St Andrew's Day,it isThe national day of Scotland.
But in Britain, although does not have the official stipulation, but in English historical development, one kind of pronunciation forms its importance gradually, becomes the recognition the most standard English pronunciation, this is Received Pronunciation, Jian Chengwei RP. The London English is one kind of very prominent voice, specially east London, in this region tradition is the massive under social stratum worker's inhabit region, this kind of voice is called Cockney. Middle England is very heavy take the Birmingham as the central area's English nasal, this kind of voice is called Brummie. Northeast England's Liverpool area pronunciation is quite rough stiffly, this kind of voice is called Scouse. Northeast England the Newcastle area's voice intonation fluctuation very rich sound musical sense, this kind of voice is called Geordie. In blue bonnet's English many vowels have the variation, sends " r" When sound not too tonguetied, this kind of voice is called Jock.
There are many immigrations in Britain, their nationality is the foreign country, but they live for a long time in Britain.


England, Scotland, Wales, Great Britain refer to different 'parts of the UK. The British Isles includes many islands not even part of the UK.
The British Isles has 12 native languages of which 2 have been revived in the last 100 years, Cornish & Manx. There are the celtic languages of Wales, Ireland & Scotland along with the Romance languages of the Channel Islands.

1 comment:

  1. A well thoughtout and informative blog Peter. You have provided information that was not asked of you, so well done. However, there is some information missing: Qustion 4. What are the differences between the people of the four nations? Question 7. How many British 'languages' exist and how many people in the four nations speak them?

    Please update your blog with the answers.

    Thank you and well done again.
    Charlie

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