Ar 12:25 -0400 2003/05/31, scr�obh John Cowan: >Marion Gunn scripsit: > >> What, then, is the code for the English of 'Northern Ireland'? >> (GB+NI=UK.) > >GB is, for better and worse, the code for the United Kingdom of Great >Britain and Northern Ireland. No one has ever requested a code for >Ulster English: should anyone do so, its proper form would have to be >devised for the purpose. >
Ulster has 9 counties (3 south of NI's border, 6 north): I must ask if JC is personally proposing to reduce Ulster to 2/3, expressing a radically new USA policy, or broadcasting for Reuters (some of us lay odds on the 3rd option)? mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

