On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:14:52PM +0100, David M wrote: > Alan Pope wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british > about: This list name/description > > > It's a minor thing really, but the name of this list is Ubuntu-UK and the > > descriptive text says "For organising Ubuntu stuff in the UK.", but the > > banner at the top (and the description in mails from the list) says "British > > Ubuntu Talk". > > > > I don't want to start a semantic argument but UK != GB. Can we get it > > harmonised one way or the other. I wouldn't want us to be annoying people > > for this minor issue. > > British is the adjective for UKian, for obvious reasons of > pronounceability. ;-) >
Heh, fair comment. I just wanted to raise it before it was raised by someone who actually cared about these things :) I'm British(English) so it's not that much of an issue for me personally, I just find that UK and GB get confusified sometimes and wanted to clarify the situation on this list. > Yes, it's not properly inclusive, although a citizen of Northern Ireland > is "British" as far as offical records of nationality are concerned, even > if they may not see themselves to be so(!). > Also true. It just seemed inconsistent that's all. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
