We may be missing a trick. The (percieved) increased use of UK may be simply down to the rise of the internet ".uk" suffix. For example, here is the BBC Politics 97 site from 1997, before t… (View Post)

https://hansard.parliament.uk/search?endDate=2025-12-31&partial=False&searchTerm=%22United%20Kingdom%22&sortOrder=1&startDate=1800-01-01 286739 mentions since 01/01/1800. Peaks were a… (View Post)

...but this is kind of the problem. The use of "United Kingdom" as the shortform name of the state has been around since the 1940s at least, but a lot of presumably intelligent people (such… (View Post)

Before CGI and (I think) all the lightning effects were hand-animated. I used to know a guy who knew the guy who did the lightning effects in "Highlander" by hand. If you see menacing cloud… (View Post)

In the Olympics * the UK are Team GB, and everybody in NI who identifies as British can play on that team. * Eire are Team IRE (sic), and everybody in NI who identifies as Irish can play on that team. (View Post)