On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:42:29AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2014 23:14:33 Martin Read wrote: > > Ahem. *Northern* Ireland. > > > > *Ireland*, unqualified, is the name of the second largest of the British > > Isles, and of the parliamentary republic which occupies five-sixths of > > that island. > > Mea culpa! I stand corrected. But at that rate we have the Dáil *and* > Stormont - and England still has no Parliament. ;-)
Sorry to correct you, too, but Northern Ireland has an Assembly[1], similar to Wales. "Stormont" may be used as a metonym[2] for the same, but that's like saying that the UK has a Westminster and Scotland has a Holyrood. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy > > Lisi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201409180642.30006.lisi.re...@gmail.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140918081136.ga16...@darac.org.uk
