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

 --- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote: > bnathyuw
writes:
>  >
>  > 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 )
>
> Coventry was capital?  When?  Now Winchester,
> Winchester was capital
> under Ælfred, I think, at least temporarily.
maybe i'm wrong ; my history's even worse than me
geography . . .

bn

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your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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