Originally Posted by
ORAC
And the French call the UK Royaume-Uni and man6 other countries have their names when we use another - Germany for example.
The Turks want us to say "Toor-kee-yay" but for Britain they say "Ing-il-terre" and the USA is ABD to them. The Erdogan supporters get quite bothered about ¨Türkiye¨ as if the outside world was trying to insult them. I hope that people in the UK aren´t going waste time being like that.