[tokamak]

But when United Kingdom will split, what will Britain use?

[flavius29663]

lb - Little Britan (cough cough, computer says no!)

[s_dev]

.ie, .scot, .cymru, .wales, .irish

[gerikson]

.ie? Already used by Ireland.

[s_dev]

Correct and the breakup of the UK will likely lead to a United Ireland. The real question is what will England use for a TLD? They've never considered their place in the world that isn't in reference to the UK or GB because to them the two are interchangeable.

[cal85]

Counterpoint: England’s national teams in the country’s most popular spectator sports (football, cricket, rugby) are all “England”.

[Veen]

> Correct and the breakup of the UK will likely lead to a United Ireland.

Will it? I know some Northern Irish who would not on board with that.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Some, of course — this is why it hasn't already happened. However, in the last NI census:

32% identified as British only, 29% identified as Irish only and 20% as Northern Irish only.

In 2011, the figures were 40% British only, 25% Irish only and 21% Northern Irish only.

[ceejayoz]

I think you're reading a "without bloodshed" into the sentence that's definitely not in there.

[disgruntledphd2]

> Correct and the breakup of the UK will likely lead to a United Ireland

Unless things go really pear-shaped in the UK, this is unlikely within the next twenty years.

[selfhoster11]

Things have been going very pear-shaped in the UK for at least 6 years now.

[cratermoon]

> Unless things go really pear-shaped in the UK

That doesn't seem terribly unlikely in within the next twenty years.

[disgruntledphd2]

Things would need to be really, really bad for the Unionist population of NI before they'd vote to join Ireland. I'm honestly not sure that anything bar the total collapse of the other island would do it, tbh ;)

[gerikson]

So... England will not be part of the FUK (former UK)?

[Iwan-Zotow]

.ei - eastern Ireland

[Iwan-Zotow]

.ei - eastern Ireland

[ChuckNorris89]

.sb (Small Britain) ?

[RugnirViking]

that's brittany (a region of france). "Great" britain is to distinguish it from there.

[medstrom]

It's more the other way around. The Romans called the isles Britannia Major and Britannia Minor (now Great Britain and Ireland). Some time after Rome fell, Britons started to settle in another region they called Armorica, so it changed name to Brittany. "Small Britain" could be either Ireland or Brittany at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany#Etymology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_(place_name)