QUOTE (JeffG @ Jul 27 2012, 03:43 PM)
Are there no athletes from Northern Ireland? If they are what "team" do they belong to? Because as any fule no, NI is not part of GB.
And why the silly name? What's wrong with "the British team", or better, "the UK team"?
It goes with the modern trend of adopting European language i.e putting the noun first such as Hotel XXX rather than XXX Hotel.
Correct UK english is "The GB Team" I would have thought.
But, as AC has stated, it sounds better off the tongue I suppose.
All part of the evolution of language I guess.
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