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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I have no idea how widely it is accepted, if at all, but Wikipedia claims that the British Isles contain the island Ireland and the republic Ireland but that the British Islands contain Northern Ireland but exclude the island and the republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termin..._British_Isles |
Well, I've lived here all my life and I've never heard the latter term used once (but then it's not like self-satisfied smug people in the south-east like me even notice the *existence* of Northern Ireland more than once a decade).