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Surely if Scotland chose to leave Great Britain, it would still remain Great Britain?



Great Britain is the island. Scotland would find it very hard to leave it.


Well, there are two Great Britains - the Kingdom that was created by the Acts of Union in 1707 and lasted for about a century until Ireland joined, and the island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain




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