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

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.

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