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| Peter Damian |
 Mon 24th March 2008, 2:26pm
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There is a splendidly inane discussion going on here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Great_Fire_of_London Someone has demanded that 'London' should be qualified as 'London, England' lest the intellectually challenged (Americans?) confuse it with the other place in Texas or Ontario or wherever. Then of course we should have to put 'Whitehall, Texas' or 'Westminster, New York' to avoid similar confusion. QUOTE Quite right [...] it can only be a matter of time though before I have to describe myself as a resident of "Italy, Europe" lest anyone should begin to think I have defected to Italy, Texas. Giano (talk) 11:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Great_Fire_of_London" This post has been edited by Peter Damian: Mon 24th March 2008, 2:27pm |
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| The Joy |
Mon 24th March 2008, 9:58pm
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British geography has always bugged me. I've heard of East Anglia and Northumbria, but is there a West Anglia and Southumbria?
(I think I've read that the "North" in Northumbria is based on the word "Norse" as the Vikings and Scandinavians were taking over around that time.) |
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| The Wales Hunter |
Mon 24th March 2008, 10:12pm
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QUOTE(The Joy @ Mon 24th March 2008, 9:58pm)  British geography has always bugged me. I've heard of East Anglia and Northumbria, but is there a West Anglia and Southumbria? (I think I've read that the "North" in Northumbria is based on the word "Norse" as the Vikings and Scandinavians were taking over around that time.) No, there is no West Anglia or Southumbria, sadly. Basically goes back to the days of the Heptarchy pre-Norman invasion. * Northumbria was in the north, meaning land to the north of the River Humber estuary * Sussex in the south, meaning South Saxons * Wessex in the west, meaning West Saxons * Essex and East Anglia in the east, meaning East Saxons and East Angles respectively * Mercia in the middle, meaning "border people" * Kent stuck in the south-east, named after the Cantiaci tribe Though that's only a very simple explanation and there is further breakdown - for example the East Angles were made up of a southern and northern group, where modern-day Suffolk and Norfolk get their name from |
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