Talk:Islands of the North Atlantic

message: In the spirt of irreverent semantics I suggest the term The West Asian Isles, Europe is really just a sub-continent like India.
Seabhcan April 04
:I suggest that the American continents should be named the inter-Pacific-Atlantic continents so that people are not offended by the region being called "American" (and hence clearly property of the USA). Rnt20 12:10, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One problem is that in their eagerness to not trample each others' feelings they have ignored those of the inhabitants of Iceland, among other islands in the North Atlantic addressed by none of the web-links below.
It is certainly not without precedent for people to use geo-political name that encompases only part of what is literally described by the term.  Other examples include "America" for the United States, "Europe" for the European Union, "Africa" for Sub-Saharan Africa.  On a personal note, I am not advocating the use of the term IONA.  It remains to be seen whether it ever gets used outside the particular context of Northern Ireland politics and diplomacy.  However the fact that it is used at all does give weight my point that the term "British Isles" is seen by many people as problematic. --Eob
To an outsider the "anglo-centric" term would more logically have to be "the English Isles," a solipsism. But surely Greenland is one of the islands of the North Atlantic. What about St. Pierre and Miquelon? Are they not also IONAs? Wetman
Then again, Ireland isn't British but I don't see the British having any problem with calling Ireland one of their "British Isles". Odd how that particular of using the term "British Isles" can only be dated in Britain itself, and in the English language, to the seventeenth century, when the British were asserting ownership of Ireland. "Geographic" indeed. 78.16.190.97 (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Hackett's Third World War was a 1985 novel with—tellingly in this context—a fantasy military scenario. --Wetman 02:20, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: This and that

message: There are already Dispute over the name of the Persian Gulf and Dispute over the name of the Sea of Japan articles.  From what I've read here, it seems this geographical naming dispute probably merits it own article as well.  Please respond on Talk:British Isles--Pharos 20:03, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about [[Dispute over the name of the British Isles]] ? 

message: Rather than a revert per day, perhaps the editors in question might want to look for arbitration, mediation, or similar, and/or come up with a compromise text that satisfies both 'sides'? Bastun 09:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Revert war

message: Given that British Isles is not favoured by all, why not take the first sylable from "British" and the second from "Irish" and put them together consecutively for a new name fo the Islands? Dainamo 15:23, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Compound word to compromise

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