Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Joe scripsit:

> Oxfordshire(my home county), Berkshire(the county my hometown was in
> pre-1974), Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire,
> Tyne&Tees(Northumbria?), all 4 Yorkshires, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset,
> Greater London, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Essex, Sussex, Kent, East
> Anglia, Wiltshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Cambridgeshire, and that's all I can
> name.
Tyne & Tees is no longer the official name of an adminstrative unit, but
geographically it's Northumberland.  Greater London contains almost all
of Middlesex and parts of Essex, Surrey, and Kent.  As for East Anglia,
it's not a traditional county or an administrative unit, though it is a
diocese; I take it to be more or less equivalent to geographical Norfolk,
Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire.

Here's the total list of 39:

Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire,
Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex,
Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire,
Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk,
Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire,
Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex,
Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire.
(The ridings [historically "thridings", 1/3-parts] of Yorkshire are also
very old, but not technically geographical counties.)

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