In message <[log in to unmask]>, Wirt Atmar 
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Tracy asks:
>
>> I'm cleaning up some addressing in our database and sometimes GB for
>>  Great Britain is used instead of UK.
>>
>>  So the question is:  Is GB still used?  And if yes, when is it
>>  appropriate to do so?  And when not?
>
>Yes, it's still used. And it's perfectly acceptable so long as you're not
>speaking to anyone from Lesser Britain.

Any Vicki Pollard will tell you it is *Little* Britain.

'No but yeah, but no but yes, actually yes!'

>Even after all these years, they're still a little touchy about the subject.

At least we know not to try to make tea with cold salt water... :-)

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