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Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Sunday, April 22, 2001, 6:09
At 1:05 pm -0400 21/4/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit: > >> PS - Yorkshire? The late Prime Minister Harold Wilson is reported to have >> said on a visit to the US something like: "Yorkshire is to Britain what >> Texas is to the USA." > >Umm, might that not merely refer to its size? It is the largest of the >traditional counties, I believe;
Correct - but I've understood that Wilson meant more than mere size and was suggesting that the outlook of Yorkshire folk vis-a-vis Britain was comparable to the outlook of Texans vis-a-vis the US. Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================