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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by unkeen on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:44AM (#39603307)
The UK is part of Europe, too.
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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by pxeger1 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:15AM (#39603696)
In the UK the word “Europe” is commonly understood in certain connected to mean continental Europe or the EU, in contrast to the UK.
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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by jon-wood on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:34AM (#39603950)
It's really not. There was a little falling out that occurred in 2016, you might have heard of it.
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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by flohofwoe on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:36AM (#39603984)
EU and Europe are not the same thing (one is an organization, the other is a continent).
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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by jamiek88 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:59PM (#39606964)
Yes and everyone understood what was meant from context without the pedantry.

Do you really think people don’t know which continent the UK belongs to?

Do you think people are in danger of thinking the UK is actually in Africa or Asia when the colloquialism of ‘Europe’ is used?

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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by flohofwoe on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:04PM (#39607827)
What better place to be overly pedantic than the HN comment section ;)
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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by JackSlateur on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:03PM (#39607816) 

  Do you really think people don’t know which continent the UK belongs to?
Have you heard of americans ?
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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by jamiek88 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @09:30PM (#39656292)
Touché!
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