difference between British, Briton, and English

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00What is the simple difference between 01i00British02i00, 01i00Briton02i00, and 01i00English02i00 when referring to people?02br
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00'British' is an adjective for someone who lives in Britain, consisting of England, Scotland and Wales. Some people would also argue that No

0I don't find "Brit" offensive, particularly; but I think I may be too antiquated to qualify.02br
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0Well I certainly don't 05000. Some people do though. I use it about myself but I wouldn't describe someone else as a 'Brit' (at least not to their face).02br
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00All English people are British but not all British people are English.02br
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00I don't hear Briton being used very often.010id1

British means people who lives in england,scotland and wales.English people are people who live in england.Actullay the Briton are a group of celtic tribes who lived in the england and wales area in the Roman times.The Britons were attacked by anglos,saxxons and jutes which the three are now the ansectors of the englishs.Nowdays the Britons live in Wales,Cornwall,Brittiany and in Northwest Spain.

I tend to agree with this post. The term 'Briton' is another example of an absolute misnomer, when placed against genereally agreed historical facts. I'm generally called 'Scottish', even that term could be termed a misnomer - as the Scotti tribe came from Hibernia (Ireland), interbred with the Picts and Northern Briton tribes etc...hunderds of years later getting a large Norse input (oooer!) and

The Britons were the ancient Celtish people from what is now Great Britain.

British is a person from Great Britain (as in, Modern Great Britain)

English is a person from England.

British is, legally, Citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Colonies(Commonwealth). This means that any citizen of which HM Queen Elizabeth II is reigning monarch could be technically classed as British, including Australians, Jamacans and Canadians. However, British is generally understood as a person born in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Briton has two meani

British: misnomer.
Briton is a modern vernacular for Prytani (painted people). The early tribes of 'Celtic' people from the Durotriges where Stonehenge is now to the Brigantians, the Ecini, the Silures of southern Wales used to daub themselves with woad, lime their hair and ride naked into battle against the Romans. They were also heavily tattooed as later written of by Tacitus of the Picts.

No, I don't think we'll hate it. Personally I'd be happy to be German (given the other options).