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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Americanisms and Canadianisms
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 18:21:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  4 18:21:07 1986
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In article <907@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>	Hmmm, sounds like Canadian English is a lot closer to British
>English than to "American" English, several of these are match the
>British usage. Even 'riding' meaning district is found in England, at
>least in northern England, where York is divided into three ridings.

Not *quite* accurate, but pretty near; prior to the Conservative government's
county boundary shuffle in the early 70's, YorkSHIRE was divided into three
parts: the North, East and West Ridings.  'Riding' is from the Old English
'thriding' [Old Norse 'thridhjungr', a third part; Yorkshire was settled
several times by the Danes].  York itself (which lay centrally to the
Ridings) was not *in* any of them, but lay in an ara known as the Ansty
[can't remember the derivation of this offhand].

						Kay.
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