(June 26, 2016 at 2:26 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 26, 2016 at 2:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote: If they were another "United Kingdom" in the world, it would be pretty ambiguous.
It's rather Great Britain for us. Or, if we're lazy, it's only England, although that doesn't cover all of it - as of yet. Hardly anyone uses the equivalent of UK, apart from a few news anchors and journalists to have another word at their disposal. For variety.
Really? When I lived there it was often called the UK, more so than the other words. "Great Britain" was used for the Olympics, which I thought was odd because Great Britain is the name of a single island (admittedly the largest in the British Isles), and presumably we had Northern Ireland competitors, perhaps even competitors from Guernsey, the Shetlands etc.
UK makes more sense as at least it's a shortening of the official name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
