As Owen noted:
The confusion surrounding "British Traditional Witchcraft" and "British Traditional Wicca" had it's start quite some time ago so the horse has left the barn on that one. But last year when I was still reading on a specific yahoo list I started to see "Traditional Craft" being used as synonymous with "British Traditional Wicca" and I pretty much had to sit on my hands.

While my time on-line is not *quite* as long as Owen's it has really only been the past few years that I have seen TW prefaced with the 'B'.

My primary objection to both versions of BTW involve the "B".

Joe Wilson's 1734 is regarded as Traditional Craft, regardless of it's admixture of origins, as are several other forms of witchcraft.

However, 1734 is decidedly an American invention.

So are we to refer to it and other Americans expressions of Traditional Witchcraft as ATW rather than BTW?

Then there are the chimeras such as Roebuck/Ancient Keltic Church, which having roots in England are more American in their applications of the "Bowers' Current"; into which hole do we pigeon them? (Of ourse this is compounded by Dave Finnin's sometimes contradictory statements that AKC is Wicca, is BTW, etc.)

I'm famliar enough with the origins of the BTW terminology, and why the folks in California felt it necesary. I'm not so clear as to why the TW folk felt a need to add the B to their own description (or even if it was they who added it), but it has happened, and once again, we are left with the after-effects.

Wicca
Traditional Witchcraft
British Traditional Wicca
British Traditional Witchcraft
Traditional Initiatory Witchcraft

(I've even seen that one co-opted by the folk they were attempting to distinguish themselves from as well.)

Oh, Names! What utterly Useless Things! (That's a joke, for those who may be humour-impaired.)