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by raverbashing 2036 days ago
"Gave up", that's a charitable way of putting it ;)

But to the topic, yes there's no apparently shorter way of referring to the UK as anything else but "Britain"

Other Kingdoms get away because they only have a "single name" (Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, etc)

Unless we come up with a name like the flag and call it Swaland or something like that