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Thread #162855   Message #3939911
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
27-Jul-18 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: DMcG - PM
Date: 27 Jul 18 - 09:41 AM
So you are opposed to the term Brexit when it should be UKexit?


Not at all. It is a neologism which has been given a single meaning, and which has widespread usage. Nobody has seriously suggested either an alternate term to use, or an alternate meaning.
Also, as there was no existing term which quite covered the required meaning, a new word was needed.

As I thought I had made clear, I am in favour of words which can be used which convey clearly an individual meaning.

Unfortunately, if we allowed Michel Barnier to dictate, and accepted a border down the Irish Sea, Brexit could become a better description than UKexit.