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  1. Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!nott-cs!lut.ac.uk!ttrjw
  3. From: R.J.Woolley@lut.ac.uk
  4. Subject: Re: london, england
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.121322.12693@lut.ac.uk>
  6. Reply-To: R.J.Woolley@lut.ac.uk (Robert Woolley)
  7. Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
  8. References: <1993Jan17.201842.20602@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1jd2roINNnt9@morrow.stanford.edu> <C15wpw.HIC@world.std.com>
  9. Distribution: soc
  10. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:13:22 GMT
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  13. In article <C15wpw.HIC@world.std.com> eac@world.std.com (Eric A Cottrell) writes:
  14. >SEveral maps that call this section "CITY". I also noticed that regional
  15. >names seem to be London centered, i.e. The North, The West County, etc.
  16. >73 Eric   eac@world.std.com
  17.  
  18. As far as I'm aware, the origin of the phrase "The West Country" comes from
  19. when Cornwall and the west were full of Britons, and the rest of the country
  20. contained Anglo-Saxons. Can anyone confirm this?
  21.  
  22. Rob.
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