Never seen that word ever in my life. Bizarre to use such a ridiculously unknown word for such an important story. I was thinking where the fuck is britland? Must be somewhere in Scandinavia or Germany.

I mean, boffin: fine. Everyone in the UK knows what that means. But britland isn't a term that anyone in the UK has heard of. (Testing...)

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ninalanyon a day ago | parent | next [-]

A word that has never been seen before isn't necessarily hard to understand. I'm pretty sure that any Brit would catch the meaning without thinking.

So pretty much anyone for whom the news is relevant would understand the headline immediately.

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graemep a day ago | parent [-]

It was obvious to me. The article uses "Britain" and "UK"

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cpncrunch a day ago | parent [-]

But the point is that I'm not going to read the article unless I know it's interesting or relevant. I assume Britland was some island or area. It sounds like a real name of an area. The only reason I clicked was because I wanted to find out where it was. I googled it and nothing came up, so I thought "I bet it just some fucked up register headline", and I was correct.

	▲	graemep 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Going through the possibilities: 1. British people will get it. Jokey references to the country are common here. 2. People who are interested in these changes globally will want to read anyway 3. Regular Register readers will probably get it 4. Social media shares often add comment or being seen mostly by one of the three categories above 5. Search engine results might or might not show a snippet that clarifies. 6. Sharing the link in places that do not allow clarifying the headline is evidently a problem.
	▲	iamnothere a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> The only reason I clicked was because I wanted to find out where it was. It sounds like it was a successful title. Click obtained.

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KaiserPro 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I assume its because of the change in the official name from GB & UK to just UK only.

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conorcleary a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I figured it's anywhere they squack is theirs or was theirs ;-)

	▲	conorcleary a day ago \| parent [-]
		Squawk*