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Re: Anthem - Queen of Australia

To: "'brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Anthem - Queen of Australia
From: Bethan Jenkins <bethan.jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:34:55 +0100 (BST)
In-reply-to: <357D9CF7.EA0805F3@clari.net.au>
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Norm Harris wrote:

> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> >
> >> > A tedious pedant writes:  actually, God Save
> >> the Queen is NOT the National
> >> > Anthem of
> >> > Great Britain - it's actually the anthem of
> >> the United Kingdom.  Great
> >> > Britain (or the British Isles) includes Eire
> >> (Southern Ireland) which has a
> >> > tune all of its own (not to mention a
> >> parliament, constitution etc) - the
> >> > UK, on the other hand, comprises England,
> >> Wales, Scotland (for the moment

'Scuse me, but doesn't the Welsh anthem get a say in this?  Or the fact
that rather a lot of us speak a completely different language??  Roll on
Welsh independence..... We had the act of union forced on us, and written
in constitutionally so tricksily no-one would bat an eyelid - except some
people who get to study it for A-level...
Our national anthem is very, very beautiful, and works best with a brass
band, which is very nice.......

 And well done to the Aussie Rugby team.   What a wonderful,
wonderful, heartening, happy happy win.  I love you all!!  
Love
Beth, Welsh Baritone (!)

> >> > anyway) and Northern Ireland.  Don't worry,
> >> it's a very common error!
> >> >
> >> > Yours factually (and extremely boringly)
> >> >
> >> > Alec (an Englishman and definitely NOT a
> >> European)

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