Paul -

🇬🇧 A Greek sailor named Pytheas wrote down our name in 325 BC. 🇬🇧 It is older than Rome. 🇮🇹 And it is still in your mouth. In 325 BC, a Greek sailed north. His name was Pytheas. He came from Massalia, on the south coast of what is now France. A Greek colony of merchants and navigators. And Pytheas was the most curious man in it. He sailed past Cádiz, around Iberia, and headed north. Past the limit of the known world. And he found a sophisticated people working tin. They lived in roundhouses set into the hills. They traded tin into the wider world. And they had a name for themselves. They called themselves the Pretannoi. Which meant the painted people. Their land was called Pretannikē. The Pretannic Isles. And Pytheas wrote it down. 📜 He returned to Massalia and wrote a book about it. He called it *On the Ocean*. The book itself was lost. But other writers quoted from it for the next 500 years. And the name he wrote down for Britain survived. The Romans wrote it as Britannia. The English wrote it as Britain. And you write it the same way today. The name has not changed in 2,350 years. 🏛️ Pytheas did not find a backwater. He found a sophisticated people. Working metal at scale. Trading across the sea. And living on land they had named before Rome could write. The Pretannoi became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And the British are still here. Still answering to the name that Pytheas carved into wax 2,350 years ago. Britain is older than Rome. Older than English. Older than the language you speak. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Britain is older than English itself. Most Britons don't know. Our work is made in Britain, for Britain. Tell your kids. 🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧