LL-L: "Names" LOWLANDS-L, 27.AUG.2000 (07) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson [lcwilson at iee.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Names" LOWLANDS-L, 24.AUG.2000 (02) [E]

At 09:31 24/08/00 -0700, john feather wrote:
>I found the following by chance in "Principles of Economics" by Ruffin &
>Gregory:
>
>"The following diagrams show unemployment rates ... in Great Britain ...
>during the Great Depression. The English figures clearly  show ..."
>
>The first diagram is labelled "United Kingdom". The three terms all refer
>to
>the same place.

This is a fine (if rather extreme) example of the confusion that
surrounds the use of these terms.

Colin Wilson.

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