North Britain

North Britain
   Scotland
   More common when Scots thought of themselves as British, despite Britain being in foreign eyes synonymous with England:
    Near to this Marble are deposited the Remains of Hugh Campbell Esqre of Mayfield in the County of Ayr North Britain 5 Jan 1824. (Memorial in Bath Abbey)
   Abbreviated to NB, especially in mail. Major Hancock, the officer commanding the garrison of Edinburgh Castle in 1947, received a readdressed letter 'not SS Edinburgh Castletry Edinburgh NB'.
   Whence North British, Scots or Scottish:
    The poet Burns wrote in the North British dialect. (Wodehouse, 1930 — Jeeves was correcting Wooster's enunciation)
   A North Briton was a Scot, although John Wilkes, who used the nom de plume, was a Londoner.

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