It gets called The UK or Britain, What happened to the word GREAT?

Question

It gets called The UK or Britain, What happened to the word GREAT?

Answer 1

It's still there, you just missed it off.

Answer 2

"Great" was never meant to be a boast for the country. It simply meant that England, Scotland, and Wales made up the entire (greater) island. The "UK" or "Britain", however includes all of Britain and Northern Ireland.

Answer 3

ahh I now I know who you used to be........ lol

Answer 4

Apparently it's not 'politically correct' to use the word GREAT now................

Answer 5

it died a death alongside Enoch Powell

Answer 6

You seem to think that the UK and Great Britain are the same thing.  They are not.  The main difference is that the UK includes Northern Ireland and Great Britain does not.

Answer 7

it is not great anymore because off too many crimes and too many sh**ts happening

Answer 8

It still is as far as I and many others are concerned, my friend !

Answer 9

The UK is not a Country but a Union of,

England,

Scotland,

Wales

and Northern Ireland,

Britain is England, Scotland & Wales,

I live in England, so i say England,

You don't get the Scots calling Scotland the UK, they say Scotland, same with the Welsh, they say they live in Wales, not the UK,

Answer 10

I still call it Great Britain,although it will soon be United Nations,or where have all the Britains gone?

Answer 11

This is our country your talking about.. of course were still great... were the best country in the world... and allways will be... be proud.. were british..   rule brittania...

Answer 12

. The media called it Great Britain but if you look at any treaties are any offical documents such as the Treaty of Rome it is not called Great Britain.

look at the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and note it is not a treaty between Great Britain and the US. it is United Kingdom. proving that it is on officail document from even 1783 not Great Britain as the name of the State.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

in fact I have a copy of the Treaty with Napoleon and it has the United Kingdom. the Great Britain was in fact dropped with the act of Union with Scotland.

Answer 13

It emigrated with the rest of us, years ago when others started to take over!

Answer 14

i still call it GB or great britain

Answer 15

I still call it Great

Answer 16

The Tory in disguise Tony Blair took it out of Britain by illegal wars, and leaving our borders open to any one who can make it to Calais :)

Answer 17

Unfortunately we are not GREAT anymore.  The last time we ever won any sports competition was in 1966.  However, we are good quarter finalists and most probably world beaters when it comes to hooliganism.

We are pompous and always talk about our average players like Rooney, Lampard and Stevie G as world class players when in fact no top side in the world would have them.

So there you have it.

Answer 18

We'll we're not 'great' anymore are we?

We've lost all the commonwealth countries.....*sigh*

Answer 19

No more Great.

because this is a tale of US or 51th state of US.  so tales never becomes great.

Answer 20

What the h**l is great about it now ?