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22 Nov 2006, 6:00 pm

Raph522 wrote:
Hi kay-zee welcome to here

tink wrote:
woof

woof=hello right?


i've decided to post random animal sounds instead of hellos and welcomes from now on. i've never really liked hellos, anyway.

please regard all i have said as one big, giant ribbit.


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22 Nov 2006, 8:09 pm

larsenjw92286 wrote:
What is the conclusion?


Devon/Devonshire?

Oh, that should take a century or two to resolve, the pace of things down west.

The Cornish are still complaining about the imprisonment of a bishop in the tower of London in 1688.



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22 Nov 2006, 9:19 pm

Oh!

I don't understand all these things because I'm American!

That's ok!


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23 Nov 2006, 3:37 am

Hello from Edinburgh, UK



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23 Nov 2006, 3:38 am

Don't worry, It's hardly an American-only confusion.

The one sure rule is that that when a county has the same name as its chief town, it's a shire. York - Yorkshire, Nottingham - Nottinghamshire.

Except that the town of Durham is in County Durham, a form unique in the UK, but used in Northern Ireland.
And on the other hand Berkshire doesn't have a town of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_town

It's not just in the UK. Checking up on this I came across at least two examples of "Hampshire County" in the the USA, which run backwards through time would appear to mean "Southampton county county"

Any other US areas which have the anomalous "---shire county" structure?