On 11/16/2016 05:39 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
Google shows 149M hits for "Great Britain", 367M for "Britain", 1G for "United Kingdom", and 4G for "UK". Are you limiting your results to a certain locale or time period?
No, I used Google News, which at my location has about 7M hits for "United Kingdom" and 29M hits for "Britain". For common terms like this I often find Google News to be more useful. I didn't look at the global search results for this term. For what it's worth I subscribe to The Economist, and its section on the country is called "Britain". The Guardian's style guide for "United Kingdom" says "no need to write in full: say Britain or the UK", and for "Britain" it says "Britain is the official short form of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" which is news to me; I wonder what's "official" about it? http://www.economist.com/sections/britain https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-b https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-u