Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 22, 2001, 6:09 |
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At 1:05 pm -0400 21/4/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
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>> 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."
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>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.
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