": Oh and some more numbers for us. A main google search for ""British & Irish Isles"", 18 hits but only about 7 unique sites. ""British and Irish Isles"", 127 hits. ""British Isles"", 16,600,000 hits of which only 4,510,000 are from the UK leaving 12 million+ hits from outside the UK. Guess which term is known and used the world over?    

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