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Recently scrolling through a list of countries to choose 'United Kingdom' I eventually found it under 'G'. The nearest I can figure, it was previously for 'Grea
by klondike_klive 4y ago
Recently scrolling through a list of countries to choose 'United Kingdom' I eventually found it under 'G'. The nearest I can figure, it was previously for 'Great Britain' and was never re-sorted? (Never mind that nobody in the UK has called it Great Britain since maybe mid 20th century!)
- rpadovani 4y agoAhhhhhh I hate this, it happens so many time when you're using a translated software: they proper translate the label, but do not order stuff again. In German, Germany is Deutschland but still comes after France
- mkl 4y agoPeople still say Great Britain all the time (it refers to something slightly different than the UK though [1]). It's what the Olympic team is called, for example. [1] https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-difference-between-the-united-kingdom-great-britain-england https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-difference-between-the-unit...
- klondike_klive 4y agoThat's true, I forgot about Team GB!
- mananaysiempre 4y agoThe ISO 3166 code is GB (the uk. TLD being a grandfathered exception), they might have sorted by that. There would be more cases of “wrong” order in the list, though most of them would be more subtle than that.
- layer8 4y agoThat’s probably due to the ISO country code being “GB”.