Re: CITY/TOWN - off subject
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- Subject: Re: CITY/TOWN - off subject
- From: p*@psu.edu (Paul and Heather Bruhn)
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 07:21:21 -0700 (MST)
>At 06:30 PM 2/28/97 +0000, Amy wrote, quoting Graham:
>
>>You seem to take pains to differentiate between a city and a town --
>>other than my view of a city being larger than a town, is there some
>
>Just to stand up for Graham a bit, I for one would like to know that
>a "delightful English town" I'm planning to visit is really a city, and
>may have some of the problems that cities have more of than towns
>[grammarians please forgive that lapse] - i.e., (perhaps) crime, noise;
>on the other hand, planning for a city visit envisions ease of
>transportation that might not be so available in a "town". Forewarned
>is forearmed.
>
>Carol
>
I'm the one that made the original lapse. I wasn't aware that the
difference between cities and towns is one of royal decree. In my eyes,
since I lived in England for a semester after being a student in the city of
Richmond, VA, if it was much smaller than, say Chester or Norwich and if it
was a size that I could walk around without too much difficulty, then I
considered it a town. I realize that there are parts of Winchester that I
never walked to. But the centre of Winchester was compact enough that it
felt considerably smaller than Chester or Norwich.
Just putting my two cents in...
Heather Bruhn
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