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This glossary of names for the British include nicknames and terms, including affectionate ones, neutral ones, and derogatory ones to describe British people, Irish People and more specifically English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people. Many of these terms may vary between offensive, derogatory, neutral and affectionate depending on a ...
Bradstows (former name) Bromsgrove Grovellers Bromyard Yardies, Yardbirds Budleigh Salterton Buddies, Sex-Buddies (pejorative) Buildwas Builders, Cowboy-Builders (pejorative) Bungay Bungholes Burgh le Marsh Burglers Burnham-on-Crouch Burning-Crotches Burnley Burnleyites, Yorkies, Dingles (pejorative, by people from other Lancashire towns ...
Lists of British people cover people from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The list are organized by region, by religion, by country of ...
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, [22] are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. [23] [24] [25] British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.
This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages. For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom. For US place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United States.
List of people on the postage stamps of the United Kingdom; Sunday Times Rich List; List of British supercentenarians; Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown; Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases
This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
In their 2004 Annual Population Survey, the Office for National Statistics compared the ethnic identities of British people with their perceived national identity. They found that while 58% of white people in England described their nationality as "English", non-white people were more likely to describe themselves as "British". [33]