Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by alexchamberlain on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:57PM
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Sorry, I didn't mean to reject anything.
> Great Britain may have been named after one of the isles
Great Britain is the largest island of the isles. The UK's full name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; ie there's no political entity of Great Britain (and never has been).
Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by dane-pgp on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @07:15PM
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> The UK's full name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Indeed. I suppose if Ireland's full name were "The Republic of Little Britain" there wouldn't be a controversy about the term "British Isles".
> there's no political entity of Great Britain (and never has been).
Unless you include the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801):
Great Britain may have been named after one of the isles, but the controversy arises because the UK spans (part of, but not all of) the two main isles.
> Has anyone proposed a viable alternative?
I don't know what would count as "viable" if you reject "Britain and Ireland" and "Atlantic Archipelago".