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"Applicants had to show their cultural heritage and royal links."
Not Wrexham Athletic then!
also a shoutout for Douglas City, a modicum of pride in this announcement.
Didn’t realise it was so small, has the place only got a population of 70,000?
Is Wrexham a nice place to visit?
It’s a dump. But plenty to do not far from there.
birthplace of Owain GlyndwrQuote:
Originally Posted by bigjoe
Just seems pointless. Do the Wrexham residents really want this or is it more about MPS, councils etc pushing for things.
The town v city nomenclature must be confusing for people who live in countries where no such differential exists linguistically.
By the way, although it will come as no surprise that the word 'city' comes from Latin the etymology of the word 'town' has come to us via an interesting route (for me anyway!):
The German word 'Zaun' meant a fence that encircled a homestead.
As in many cases, the 'Z' changed to 'T' and a vowel change occured so that the word became 'tuin' (best imagine the pronuciation as being spoken by a Newportonian) in Dutch. However, 'tuin' was used for the cultivated area within the fence and now means 'garden'.
In Old English 'tuin' became 'tūn' which represented the settlement itself and, in turn, became 'ton' or 'town'.
Taunton = Tonetown i.e. town on the river Tone.
Just sayin' :-)
they really are scraping the barrel now there can't be anywhere else left that is a potential city.
Don't think so. Owen Money? Michael Owen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Nice place, or at leat the parts I saw were, not as nice as their rivals Chester though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivortheengine
MerthyrQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
It's a welcoming place. They start talking in Welsh when you walk in a pub. OK it's the language of Wales I know but the gogs do it on purpose.
Top place
20000 going to London for fa trophy on Sunday
Good lads , there when it mattered
The Wrexham urban area is 136000Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
To follow TBGs trivia.
It interested me that on the Isle of Man, Peel in known as a City, as St.Germans cathedral is there, it was the original capital of the King of Mann, home to St.Patrick. They applied for City status but didn’t get it but Douglas as the administrative capital did.
One man's trivia is another man's profundity, old fruit :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
fecking joke, Milton Keynes City ffs
You're more likely to hear Welsh in a Cardiff pub than you are in Wrexham...Quote:
Originally Posted by dandywarhol