On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:18:45AM +0100, Peter Masson wrote:
"1506" wrote
Why do our friends accross the Irish sea reverse the word
order (e.g. County Carlow) I wonder?
Not specifically Irish, but used where the county and a town in it have the
same name, and the shire suffix doesn't apply. The one English example is
County Durham.

So why County Durham instead of Durhamshire? And why have our
trans-Atlantic friends reversed the order to produce Whatever County
instead of County Whatever?

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