Mark Goodge wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:19:25 +0000, Tom Anderson put finger to keyboard
and typed:

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Arthur Figgis wrote:

Mike Cawood, HND BIT wrote:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...559786,00.html
Some people should have been strangled at birth.
Mike.

"Are there any lakes in the Lake District?" might seem silly, but
"how many lakes are there?" is a fairly common trick question.

[one, Bassenthwaite]

So in what sense is, say, Coniston Water not a lake? Is it just that
it doesn't have 'lake' in the name, or is it geologically different
soehow?

It is just the name. Technically, of course, there's a difference
between how many "lakes" there are in the Lake District (answer: lots)
and how many "Lakes" are in the Lake District (answer: one), but if
you get that pedantic then it ruins a nice trivia question :-)

Which reminds me... everyone knows how many Roads are in the City Of London,
but how many Roads are in the W1 postcode?