Hi Tony, > You've confused me and at the risk of starting the argument you want > to avoid, isn't UK short for 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and > Ireland', i.e., everything except the republic of Ireland. Doesn't > this imply that UK==GB??
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_%28terminology%29 but briefly: GB (Geographical) is largest island of the British Isles archipelago, Ireland is the second largest. GB (Political) is England, Wales, and Scotland. So GB never includes Northern Ireland although that is part of the UK. Cheers, Ralph. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
