On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Mizter T wrote:

On Jul 19, 11:32 am, John B wrote:

On Jul 19, 10:55 am, Mizter T wrote:

I think there's a number of other examples where an official or quasi-
official body of one sort or another defines London in different ways.

Examples (from the present day)?

Perhaps I've overstretched myself here... hmm! OK...

Snip a huge list of official or quasi-official bodies which are not making
*any* attempt *at all* to define London. It's a list of bodies which have
defined a region for their own purposes, and named it after London,
because London is the most obvious thing in it.

Seriously, do you think if you went to talk to the chief dredger at
British Waterways and asked him if his mum, who lives in Bishops
Stortford, lives in London, he'd say yes?

tom

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