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Re: OT: baloney and cheese

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 19:31
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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.

Replies

John Cowan <jcowan@...>
michael poxon <m.poxon@...>
Dan Jones <devobratus@...>UK Counties (was OT: baloney and cheese)