John Francis wrote:
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:24:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/26/2005 7:17:55 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The United Kingdom (UK) is the nation state consisting of England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The word Britain is used to refer to the island of Great Britain
which consists of England, Scotland and Wales sometimes the Roman
province called "Britain" or "Britannia"
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So it wouldn't be TOTALLY inappropriate to have it as
UK United Kingdom (Britain)
would it?
I suspect that quite a few users from Northern Ireland would
disagree. While they live in the United Kingdom (of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, to give the full name), they
would take exception to your suggesting that they live in
Britain.
Possibly, but Ireland (all of it) is considered to be one of the British
Isles, isn't it? (So I'm not sure you can say that Britain refers to the
same as *Great* Britain.)
- Toralf
