im in London England
Jan 25th 2012 | 12:15 pm
#16
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Re: im in London England
Of course if someone says they're in London you think they're in England and not in London ON, even if they're a cradle. Similarly, if someone says they're in Paris one thinks of France, not Paris ON. You'd have to be inbred to the point of terminal parochialism to think first of little towns in Canada with borrowed names. The proper form is to refer to the place just by its name and the to qualify the name of the derivative, so Athens ON, but not Athens Greece.
Jan 25th 2012 | 1:05 pm
#17
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Re: im in London England
Sorry, but I think Berlin ON was the previous name for Kitchener, not London. It was changed in 1912. I (of course) remember it well.
Jan 25th 2012 | 3:42 pm
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Re: im in London England
Of course if someone says they're in London you think they're in England and not in London ON, even if they're a cradle. Similarly, if someone says they're in Paris one thinks of France, not Paris ON. You'd have to be inbred to the point of terminal parochialism to think first of little towns in Canada with borrowed names. The proper form is to refer to the place just by its name and the to qualify the name of the derivative, so Athens ON, but not Athens Greece.
One of my favourite Canadian anecdotes is from my train trip to Toronto from Montreal in 1997, I was sitting next to a cradle, who asked me where I was going. I told her that I was going to London, to which she replied that she was going there too, and I could catch the train from the next platform when we arrived in Toronto. Fortunately I didn't take her advice....
Jan 25th 2012 | 10:29 pm
#22
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Re: im in London England
I didn't say that cradles properly inferred the country of a city, perhaps she was inbred to the point of terminal parochialism.
Jan 26th 2012 | 1:49 am
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Re: im in London England
I've learnt something new today anyway.
Jan 26th 2012 | 2:00 am
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Jan 26th 2012 | 12:15 pm
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Jan 27th 2012 | 1:03 am
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Re: im in London England
Jan 27th 2012 | 1:03 am
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Jan 27th 2012 | 6:45 am
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