UK to leave EU

[abaris]

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".

I'm talking about German speaking countries. Großbritannien instead of Vereinigtes Königreich.