Great Britain, really?

[mentalboy]

Is it about time to drop the Great from Britain.

The place has been in decline for decades but this news really takes the biscuit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gpll9l535o
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[Nobby the Bastard]

This is where people should thank me for being a civil servant as I literally have a permanent cupp of builders tea beside me whilst I prevent progress due to being beaurcratic.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I have a spelling checker at work.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I’m still both bemused and slightly amused by the fashion for toting expensively-bottled tap water everywhere like dehydration is just around the corner. Similarly, pricey-yet-unpleasant coffee in paper cups carried high like a trophy or the Olympic flame. I blame The Yanks.

[WD Forte]

MBGA
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[A100man]

[Polarbear]

Never been in one of those coffee shops and never will. One of my engineers failed a D&A test after eating a bun in one that we found out had poppy seeds on back in the 90's.

Well, it was either that or they are a front for drug dealers.

Anyway, the scumbags that run the country have already dropped GB from your car stickers. You now have to have UK instead. I've no doubt in the not too distant future the Great in Great Britain will be dropped to keep all the people who are self flagellating over our colonial and slave running past happy.
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[Easy-X]

AFAIK "Britain" refers to England and Wales and the "Great" was added after the union between the kingdoms of Scotland and England (BTW Wales isn't a kingdom, only a princedom).

"UK" used to refer to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". Éire threw off the shackles of their old colonial masters in 1922* so now it's "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

Following such origins, it would be perfectly acceptable to drop the "Great" if Scotland finally falls for the lie of independence to give us "United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland"

*To be replaced by new colonial masters a century later.
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[WD Forte]

Wasnt 'Great' a descriptive title because of it being the larger part rather than being great as in Brilliant-Fantastic Britain etc?
It was applied in the same sense as Greater London for instance to distinguish the main part from the outer suburbs
I've read it was at one time used to distinguish it from Brittany
(the French called us Grand Brittania)
and it being the larger of the two Brittanic islands where Ireland is the smaller.
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[Easy-X]

So if the big island is "Great" Britain the little isle is...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p059qz56.jpg
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[blurredman]

I do not believe it's anthing to do with ireland or scotland. Though Romans might include parts of modern scotland up to the 2nd scottish wall - Antonine's Wall - which didn't last very long of course as we should all know.

'Great Britain' is just taken out of context to mean something it didn't originally mean at all.

I understood Great Britain as originating from the following:

From Roman, Greater Britannia/Britannia Superior which simply means bigger/upper - the smaller/lower Britannia being Brittany, in France.

Romans never went to Ireland. Ireland is not part of the traditional 'Greater'.
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[doggone]

OP was just having a comedy dig but French still refer to us as Grande-Bretagne. As a geographical area of mainland Britain - there is no such country officially.
They also call us Royaume-Uni, and that's why UK sticker now supposed to be on plate not GB.

[RhynoCZ]

I thought the tea drinking culture was predominantly English, not British. When I say British I mean the whole UK. As for the reasons why tea consumption is decreasing, I think one aspect is people just got lazy these days.

Thinking of it, Brits dying out and immigrants being not very tea drinking community also causes lower sales numbers.
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