The word `great`

Great thread.

Ooooooh definintely

More so in sporting terms, Great Ball, Great Shot, Great Pass, Great Balls of fire stop f*cking exaggerating!

All superlatives are grossly overused. I blame Jim Bowen.

Leave Bowen out of this he's a legend

there are actually , very few great things or people in the world.

I would include the Great Wall of China, Mohammed Ali, the Roman Empire, the British Empire.
Mother Teresa, the moon landing, Queen Victoria

AWESOME thread

Super, smashing, great. Nice firm handshake. Lovely couple of lads from Sheffield. You've won the speedboat.

My fireplace is grate.

Ali great? hmm the rest ok but a draft dodging very good boxer who was beaten far too many times could neevr be great in my eyes.

yes, he went on for too long, should stopped around `75

What's wrong with draft dodging? Very sensible move in my opinion.

Indeed. They should have given the much loved Steve McQueen prisoner of war epic the much more catchy title of "The ambitious, but ultimately only moderately successful escape, as only three made it and nearly everyone else got shot by The Germans"

They don't call it "Great" Luxembourg, do they? Or Great France?

'**cing' France is the correct full version.

Britain deserves to be called Great, this small island created and managed the largest empire in human history, gave the world many wonderful things

Super

nice

Ray Wilkins says "Super" a lot. Why is this? A medical condition or just because he is a tw@t?

Great Britain is the name of an island, not the name of a country. The word 'Great' simply signifies that it's the largest island in the British Isles.

yes the country is called 'The united Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Island'

My 'super' was a dismal attempt at a Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin reference.
"Great"
"Super CJ"

Carefull, Slippy, I didn't get where I am today making dismal attempts at a Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin reference!

momm i thought it was to differentiate it from "Little" Britain, i.e. Brittany?

Look at translation for Gran Canaria and Gran Turismo

Big Canary, Big Tourism. What's your point, Manuel? ;)

That may well be so azir, and if that's how the island originally got it's name then I stand corrected. The only point I was really making is that the adjective 'Great' isn't being used in this context to describe the staus of a country, which is what some posters seem to think.