Re: CHAT National toponyms
| From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 17, 2004, 21:14 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:27PM +0100, Ray Brown wrote:
> Ireland [sic],
Why the [sic]? The IRFU is All-Ireland, and the teams represents the
whole island. If it's the use of 'nation', if you can have nations
without a country, surely you can have a nation split between two
countries?
> Hm. That would make the UK a supernational organization, like the EU or
> the UN . . . but it is legally a single nation-state, is it not?
K.
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