CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)

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; though Texas is no longer the largest state
(since the accession of Alaska in 1958), it still thinks of itself as such.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter

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