Re: OT: UK Counties (was OT: baloney and cheese)

John Cowan wrote:
>Dan Jones scripsit:
>
> > How do you mean "geographic county"? A county's a county.
>
>Not at all.  See http://abcounties.co.uk/counties/confusion.htm
Aha! I see what you mean. An interesting site. I'm not sure if I agree with
their ideas for the "thirteen traditional counties of Wales", though,
especially not for the North. Here in North Wales Caernarvonshire and
Merioneth don't figure much in popular perception, and haven't ever really
done. Personally, I consider myself a Gwyneddwr, a Venedotian, not "a man
of Caernarvonshire", as do most people. The names of the ancient Kingdoms
(Dyfed, Cereidigion, Gwynedd, Gwent, Morgannwg and Brycheiniog) have always
been more common in native Welsh literature and in the popular imagination
than the "shires". Note that Welsh has a word for "the people of Gwynedd"
(y Gwyndod, "the Venedotes"), but not "the people of Caernarvonshire"

Dan

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