J-P Treen on Mythryl: “My grandmother found people saying 'UK' weird, her introduction to…”

My grandmother found people saying 'UK' weird, her introduction to it was as a young army officer's wife based abroad in the '50's. She'd never heard it before and she told me (around maybe 2005?) that people had only really started using it in the '70's. (Google Books thinks she was ~8 years late)

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

Think the discourse on “lanyardian” is missing the far crazier part of this, which is that it’s a conversation between two people who now believe that saying “UK” is a weird, Starmer-like affectation. Margaret Thatcher used it, because it is literally the name of our country!

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