UKoGBaNI

alternative UKGBNI · alternative UKOGBANI

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

   A friend of mine has never got further away from UKoGBaNI than Amsterdam, and is a regular user of the phrase "a whole bunch".

   1996 September 10, Mike Holmans, “Bogus science in YOUR COMPUTER'S PROCESSOR!”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025

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   This American has heard of Dame Edna. I saw the referenced show [The Dame Edna Experience] while visiting the UKoGBaNI in late July and early August.

   1991 September 1, Eric A Cottrell, “Dame Edna's Hollywood”, in rec.arts.tv.uk (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025

   The confusion is presumably because the pound sign on a UKoGBaNI keyboard is in exactly the same place as the sharp sign is on an American keyboard, which you might not know.

   2002 November 19, Donald Fisk, “What's up with #'?”, in comp.lang.lisp (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jan 2025

alternative UKGBNI · alternative UKoGBaNI

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

   882 UKOGBANI poor through WCBS het w/light mx 0249 12/28. (Kaz)

   1980 January 21, Chuck Hutton, “International DX Digest”, in DX News: The Magazine of the National Radio Club, volume 47, number 13, [Cambridge, Wis.]: National Radio Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8

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   BBC is another big multi-site station. Except along the East Coast, best reception in North America usually comes from BBC sites outside the UKOGBANI.

   1976 September, Glenn Hauser, “DX Listening”, in Art Salsberg, editor, Popular Electronics, volume 10, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 109, column 3

   He asks me to write my home address on his arm where he already has an assorted collection of drawings, addresses and diagrams. I tell him I’m from UKOGBANI.

   1993, Paul Clements, “Smashing up their suspensions: Connemara to the Aran Islands”, in Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland, Ballycastle, County Antrim: Clachan Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN, page 56