On 2016-11-16 13:57, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 11/16/2016 08:14 AM, Jiri Bohac wrote:
I would also change "Britain" to "United Kingdom", "Britain" appears to be considerably more popular in English.
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? Results for the past year alone have similar relative frequencies, using Advanced Search for the word or phrase and English language, both over the last year and unlimited. "United Kingdom" and "UK" are uncontentious, and closest to the correct long phrases, which are contentious when not qualified at length. Britain is a colloquial term similar to using America or the States (and all three are contentious words) to refer to the USA. Great Britain is now considered a geographical term for the main island, excluding Northern Ireland and all the other islands considered part of the United Kingdom, and a contentious phrase when used for the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_GB#Calls_for_renaming Who, What, Why: Why is it Team GB, not Team UK? http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37058920 "In fact, of the 29 athletes from Northern Ireland in Rio, the vast majority - 21 - have chosen to represent Team Ireland... Only eight are representing Team GB." https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/754999206578941952?ref_src=twsrc%5Et... http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/team-gb-olympic-name... Team GB is greater than the sum of its parts: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/alicethomson/article3501033... "Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd Iwerddon" shortened to "Teyrnas Unedig" or "Y Deyrnas Unedig" abbreviated "DU", or "Rìoghachd Aonaichte Bhreatainn is Èireann a Tuath" shortened to "Rìoghachd Aonaichte" are also now legal names for the UK, used by the government, with only 10.6k, 13.5k, 873k(!), 3.9k, 66.4k hits respectively, across all languages. ;^> -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada