Englands in Scotland

Southern part of Great Britain

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LesleyB
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Post by LesleyB » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:40 pm

Hi Malcolm
They show that that there is a probability that the name ‘England’ is more likely to be English than Scottish by about five hundred to one
Not sure I'd believe their conclusions - in the Frequency & Ethnicity section I checked out a couple of names, one which I know to be more Scottish than anything else, and one which I know to be Irish in origin. In both cases the data returned suggested these were predominately English names, which I suspect is a load of nonsense! The category seems to be "---English or unknown" and I think perhaps "unknown" is hiding a lot of the true picture. As you say "let’s be aware, these are just statistics!" :lol:


Best wishes
Lesley