alt Hacker NewsNo it's not, this is just the Register being the Register. Britain would have worked just fine.
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JumpCrisscross • today at 12:15 AM
Britain is ambiguous. Great Britain is geographically specific. Britland is shorter.
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Dylan16807 • yesterday at 11:55 PM
What do you mean it's not. What else would you categorize it as?
It's similar to how "Yookay" is now a word that has certain overtones that aren't conveyed by writing "UK" which is fewer letters.