Re: CHAT: Ability of Americans & Europeans to locate each others cities (was Re: The [+foreign] attribute)

 --- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote: > On
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:24:04 +0200 Christophe
> Grandsire
> <christophe.grandsire@...> writes:
> > > Israel - Tel-Avit*, Jerusalem
>
> > Isn't it Tel-Aviv?
>
> > Christophe.
> -
>
> Yup, but it's not the capital; Jerusalem is.
> I remember seeing "Palestinian Authority" on the
> original list... the
> capital of that is (i think) Ramallah, with other
> large cities being Gaza
> City and Jericho.  Haifa should probably be added to
> the Israel list,
> too.  It's pretty big.
>
if we're doing big/important, then the uk should have
had birmingham ( second biggest city )
cardiff/caerdydd ( capital of wales ) edinburgh/dín
éideann ( capital of scotland ) belfast ( dunno the
gaelic, nor indeed the ulster scots ) ( capital of
northern ireland )

then there's coventry ( former capital iirc ) and
canterbury ( site of main cathedral )

and then of course there's westminster, which is a
city in its own right as well as being half of london
( with the city of london, as well as numerous towns
and villages )

anyway, i'm getting very verbose for someone who
doesn't know anything about geography . . . and i
still haven't mentioned manchester, leeds, bradford .
. ..

bn

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