Originally posted by Ladidayou call it Bri-tan, not "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
I call it the full name, when speaking. But that's not the point. Hardly anyone says just 'Britain' anyway, we just say 'England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland" or "Great Britain" or "The United Kingdom". They're different as well. If you say "Great Britain" you mean England, Wales and Scotland. If you say "The United Kingdom", you generally mean England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Besides, it's not likely you know the whole history of the pronunciation of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" since 1707, which, by the way, was when it formed legally.
Originally posted by Ladidathe chances of you using "America" to refer to the Western Hemisphere/New World are rather slim anyways
That's because there's a difference between The West and The Americas. The West/New World is Europe and (Normally) North America. The Americas is North, Central and South America. Not The West.
Anyway, I was just talking about 'America' and 'The USA'. I have nothing against people saying 'USA'. It's much faster to say 'USA' than 'America' and going back to my example with the Federated States of Micronesia, you say the full name because people over there aren't lazy and they actually bother to say the full name rather than making the name short because people don't want to exercise their jaw muscles as well, instead they will just laze around saying brain damaged phrases like 'Oh, I'm going to AMERICA this year. I might also visit CANADA' when they don't realize that, like I have already said, Canada is part of 'America' or 'The Americas' because they're idiots.
Sorry, that got a little out of hand.
Anyway, my point is, I just don't like it when people say 'America', actually meaning the USA.