2009/12/6 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>:
> 2009/12/6 WereSpielChequers <[email protected]>:

>> Aside from the possibility that London might want to be a chapter, I
>> would have thought that organising subchapters by language would be at
>> least as relevant as geographical ones. We have wikis for Scots and at
>> least three celtic languages, plus perhaps Bangla and other languages?
>> I see no reason why we can't cut this cake in several different
>> dimensions, depending on whats relevant to the task in hand.

> Chapters are supposed to be geographic in range rather than
> linguistic. I guess there is no reason why we can't use different
> rules for subchapters, though. For the most part languages follow
> geographic lines anyway, it's just immigrant languages that don't.


I vaguely recall that some *huge* proportion (>90%) of Bangla (I
think) speakers in Britain are in the borough of Tower Hamlets in
London. So geographical distribution does happen! There will be towns
where immigrants from a given place will congregate.

c.f. Bradford and Birmingham as the places of origin of many "Indian" dishes.


- d.

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