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Listed below are comments made by Davroche between Wednesday, 20th August 2008 and Wednesday, 20th August 2008.

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Team GB or Team UK? 9:21pm on 20 Aug 2008 Dear brianab is not entirely correct. I run an insurance company and our insurance covers the whole country. Our documents refer to our country as "Britain" throughout all our policies and just to be sure, as we also include the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey along with the Isle of Man, we define Britain as the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man"

For us and our customers Britain automatically includes Northern Ireland.
Suggest a story for 23 August 9:07pm on 20 Aug 2008 I agree with The Economist that the name of our country is Britain. There is a difference between Britain the country and Britain the island. Northern Island is in Britain the country but not in Britain the island. Belfast is in Britain - just like Corsica is in France, Bornholm is in Denmark, Majorca is in Spain and Alaska is in America.

Is Sardinia in Italy? Of course it is - but it is not as close to the Italian mainland as Northern Ireland is to the British mainland.

If you live in Bornholm you are Danish, Corsica you are French, Majorca you are Spanish, Alaska you are American and the people of Derry are British.

The introduction of UK was and is absurd. Are we to be ukayish or speak ukayish?

I wish the BBC stopped using UK and would dearly like to know why and on whose authority it changed its description of this country from Britain to UK. Surely it did not just happen?

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