# (Great) Britain becoming the UK

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 26, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-britain-becoming-the-uk/995157 "2023-12-26T11:17:32Z")\
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> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> As a brit, I normally use UK these days.  
> Shorter to type than Great Britain, and immediately recognisable, while ‘GB’ isn’t unambiguous… might refer to Gigabytes, for example…

I recently did a double take on “UK” here, I think it’s the first time in my life I have ever seen it stand for anything else.

[Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread - #9769 by Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread/931945/9769)

> A Kentucky helicopter pilot has pleaded guilty to flying an air ambulance while drunk…The patient was transferred to a ground ambulance for the trip to the UK hospital…

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