On 11 Sep 2014, at 09:39, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > On 11/09/2014 09:28, Charlie Boisseau wrote: >>> And Belfast was utterly awesome. Anyone that didn't fancy leaving >>> Britain to get over there really did miss out. >> >> Erm.. I hate to break it to you, but Belfast is in Britain. > > Erm.. I hate to break it to you, but Belfast is in the UK, not Britain. This > diagram gets it mostly right: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_Euler_diagram.svg > > ...except for the anachronistic "british isles" thing.
Does “Britain" unambiguously refer to “Great Britain” or “the British Isles” or “the United Kingdom”? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain I’d said both “Britain" and “British" are a bit more fluid than the more fixed definitions of “Great Britain”, “British Isles”, or “UK”. - Mark
