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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 - 28 October 2007 - Volume 03</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_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.27 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: Sandy Fleming<span style="font-weight: normal;"> <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Lexicon"
2007.10.25 (06) [E/German]<br><br></div> <div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">In the UK a city is usually defined as a place with cathedral (which is
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">the seat of a bishop, as I understand it). This means that since there </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
are few
cathedrals in Scotland, there are few cities, and one of them is</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">the small town of Kirkwall in Orkney because of the magnificent St</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Magnus Cathedral there.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Sandy Fleming
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br></div>
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>This
is a cart before the horse situation, at least in England; a city is a
city by Royal Charter. Leicester only became a city in the early
20thC, and then St. Martin's, the biggest mediaeval church, became the
cathedral.<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In Derby it was even later - the 1980's. The city now has a cathedral, and a Cathedral Road, but only since then.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">On
the other hand, the huge churches at Southwell (Nottinghamshire) and
Beverley (Yorkshire), though episcopal centres, are "Minsters", and
neither town is a city. Nottingham has been a city for far longer than
either of its neighbours Leicester and Derby, but doesn't have a
cathedral as it falls under Southwell.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">In England, cities make cathedrals, not the other way round.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Scotland may well be different.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">On
a separate issue of "towns", I find it interesting that while England
and Scotland are littered with "ton" names from Anglo-Saxon </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">tun </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(enclosure), when I look at maps of other Lowlands, and indeed Germanic, countries, I don't see any counterparts.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Paul Finlow-Bates<br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="ad"><br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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