UKoGBaNI
See also: UKOGBANI
English
Alternative forms
Proper noun
UKoGBaNI or the UKoGBaNI
- Initialism of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- 1991 September 1, Eric A Cottrell, “Dame Edna's Hollywood”, in rec.arts.tv.uk[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 3 January 2025:
- 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.
- 1996 September 10, Mike Holmans, “Bogus science in YOUR COMPUTER'S PROCESSOR!”, in alt.folklore.urban[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 3 January 2025:
- A friend of mine has never got further away from UKoGBaNI than Amsterdam, and is a regular user of the phrase "a whole bunch".
- 2002 November 19, Donald Fisk, “What's up with #'?”, in comp.lang.lisp[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 3 January 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.