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| :: I wasn't trying to mislead, but in my experience they are still used. It no doubt varies from place to place, however. I think it's a little disingenuous to disregard 18,800 hits as being mostly genealogical sites, but I won't replace the term. Incidentally, the various watsonian vice-counties of yorkshire are also directly based upon the Ridings, and WVCs are most certainly used in modern, scientific contexts. ] 21:53, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC) | :: I wasn't trying to mislead, but in my experience they are still used. It no doubt varies from place to place, however. I think it's a little disingenuous to disregard 18,800 hits as being mostly genealogical sites, but I won't replace the term. Incidentally, the various watsonian vice-counties of yorkshire are also directly based upon the Ridings, and WVCs are most certainly used in modern, scientific contexts. ] 21:53, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC) | ||
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- although the Ridings still exist as histoic boundaries without which administrative boundaries could not be defined, and they are still used in many other areas.
Like what? --Camembert
yorkshire "west riding" shows that at least 18,800 peple use them, and that is only those on the internet. All the people I know from yorkshire both use and understand the ridings system, and to maintain factual accuracy in the article, I felt that this fact ought to be clarified. Before it read as if the Ridings suddenly "ceased to exist", and this is certainly not the case.
- I'm from Yorkshire, and I don't use the ridings system or come across it in life very much. I only understand it because I've made the effort to do so. Maybe people who remember the ridings refer to them in conversation, but I don't think it's used for any practical purpose (apart from clubs and so on established before 1974). A look at the first few pages of the Google search reveals that the vast majority of the hits use the term in a purely historical context (quite a lot of them are genealogical sites). So really, I think the "many other areas" bit is misleading. I'm taking it out. --Camembert
- I wasn't trying to mislead, but in my experience they are still used. It no doubt varies from place to place, however. I think it's a little disingenuous to disregard 18,800 hits as being mostly genealogical sites, but I won't replace the term. Incidentally, the various watsonian vice-counties of yorkshire are also directly based upon the Ridings, and WVCs are most certainly used in modern, scientific contexts. 80.255 21:53, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)
What are the two traditional English counties that are bigger than Yorkshire? It appears to be the biggest on the map at Traditional counties of England. -Nommo 19:38, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)