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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The UK British example is interesting.

Not British, so hopefully I'm not butchering this up.

UK is Great Britain (so Scotland, England, Wales) + Northern Ireland.

UK British in opposition to UK Northern Irish makes limited sense because both demonyms are enough to see who's who (British vs Northern Irish). And if you want to go deeper, you can use Scottish, English, Welsh.

To have a situation similar to America would be to have the English using British to only qualify themselves, disregarding Scottish and Welsh people.