Re: OT: baloney and cheese

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: OT: baloney and cheese


> Joe scripsit:
>
> > I could probably name half the counties in England.  Scotland, Wales,
and
> > NI, no way.
>
> The trick here is not to confuse the "ancient, traditional, historical,
and
> geographical Counties", of which England contains precisely 39, Scotland
34,
> Wales 13, and Northern Ireland 6, with the endlessly changing muck of
> administrative units introduced in 1974 and revamped several times since
> then.  With the exception of about sixty detached parts (a parish here,
> a hamlet there) that were rectified in 1844, the English counties have
> been rock stable since before Domesday Book (1086), and the Scottish and
> Welsh counties have been stable for several centuries at least.
>
I'll try to name all the ones in England ->

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.

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