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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 27 October 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">
sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.10.25 (06) [E/German]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> From: Danette & John Howland <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:dan_how@msn.com">
dan_how@msn.com</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.10.25 (03) [D/E]<br><br>> As in some other parts of the country, I believe the only form of<br>> municipal incorporation is the city--there are officially no
<br>> townships. This means that some of our "cities" are villages only big<br>> enough to have a post office.<br><br>In the UK a city is usually defined as a place with cathedral (which is<br>the seat of a bishop, as I understand it). This means that since there
<br>are few cathedrals in Scotland, there are few cities, and one of them is<br>the small town of Kirkwall in Orkney because of the magnificent St<br>Magnus Cathedral there.<br><br>Elgin is sometimes referred to as a city because of its ruined
<br>cathedral, but as there is no bishopric there, it's not officially a<br>city.<br><br>Similarly, St Andrews has what I think must be the largest cathedral in<br>Scotland but it was destroyed by gangs of zealots during the
<br>reformation, turning the city of St Andrews back into a fishing village.<br><br>Hawick is a small town in the Scottish Borders which is sometimes<br>referred to as "The City of Hawick", presumably because, though small,
<br>it's still the biggest town in the whole of the Borders.<br><br>As part of the millennium celebrations, the UK government announced<br>three new cities. One was Inverness in Scotland. I don't think there was<br>
any cathedral involved but it brings the total number of cities in<br>Scotland to six (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Kirkwall, and now<br>Inverness).<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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