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Re: OT: baloney and cheese

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Monday, August 4, 2003, 14:20
John Cowan wrote:
> Joe scripsit: >
[Re: counties]
> Here's the total list of 39: > ... > Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire. > (The ridings [historically "thridings", 1/3-parts] of Yorkshire are also > very old, but not technically geographical counties.) > > -- > It was impossible to inveigle John Cowan <jcowan@...> > Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > Into offering the slightest apology http://www.reutershealth.com > For his Phenomenology. --W. H. Auden, from "People" (1953) > >
Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I just noticed the definition of 'ridings' as 'thridings'. Interesting - and it shows up whoever it was who decided to divide the Irish county of Tipperary into two parts administratively - "North Riding" and "Sound Riding". Bloody typical. -stephen

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