Re: Language Subtag Registration

John Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:56:38 -0400

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:10 PM CE Whitehead <[email protected]> wrote:

I imagine that with Philly we will need Brooklyn or New York City,
> Pittsburgh, Fitchburg/Boston
>

Our policy is to add geographical variants when requested rather than
systematically all at once, because it's far from clear where to stop.

I was told not sure it's true that the word 'mile' in Texas referred to a
> different distance than it did elsewhere)
>

Not as far as I can tell.  But Irish miles (about 27% longer) and acres
(about 62% larger), though officially abolished in 1824, were in use,
though increasingly less so, until Ireland went metric in the 1970s.

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