Talk:Strathclyde
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[edit] Brythonic
See the article; footnote 1. The trouble with this word is that it is a linguistic term relevant to the P Celtic languages spoken in Britain. That is why I carefully avoided it by using the word 'British' when referring to the people rather than to the language spoken by them. It is true that the name of the Britons was taken over by later arrivals just as 'Scot' came to mean any of the people in the land taken over by the Scots so that there is some ambiguity in any word we might choose to use. The usual way round the problem would be a footnote but it is one of those already. (RJP 13:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC))
[edit] 'Argyll' or 'Argyll and Bute'?
I know the unitary council area, since 1996, is named Argyll and Bute, but I suspect that although the distict of Strathclyde did include the island of Bute (but not most of the county) it was called simply Argyll. Laurel Bush 17:51, 11 April 2006 (UTC).
I guess there is confusion because the Westminster constituency of Argyll and Bute was created in 1983, 13 years earlier than the unitary council area. Laurel Bush 09:23, 13 April 2006 (UTC).
I thought it was Argyll and Bute Google: "Argyll and Bute District Council" yields 295 results "Argyll District Council" yields 4 86.142.47.86 23:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- Good old Google, it must be true then! In actual fact Schedule 1 of the LG(S)A 1973 states that the name of the district is simply "Argyll"; The council may have chosen to rename itself at some point but I guess the point of this article is to show the composition of the region as it was when it was created. Owain (talk) 11:00, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps there should be aka notes in the article? I now imagine the constituency name represents a change of name for the district. Laurel Bush 17:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC).
