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Originally Posted by pendy
Didn't the phrase "United Kingdom" originate when James V of Scotland became James I of England?
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Nope. It was a century later, when in the 1706 Act of Union (England & Scotland) we had the Union of Great Britain; then the 1800 Union between Great Britain & Ireland led to the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. This was amended in 1922 following partition, to the UK of GB & NI.