Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:42:29AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2014 23:14:33 Martin Read wrote:
> > Ahem. *Northern* Ireland.
> >
> > *Ireland*, unqualified, is the name of the second largest of the British
> > Isles, and of the parliamentary republic which occupies five-sixths of
> > that island.
>
> Mea culpa! I stand corrected. But at that rate we have the Dáil *and*
> Stormont - and England still has no Parliament. ;-)
Sorry to correct you, too, but Northern Ireland has an Assembly[1],
similar to Wales. "Stormont" may be used as a metonym[2] for the same,
but that's like saying that the UK has a Westminster and Scotland has a
Holyrood.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
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