Talk:Counties of Scotland
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The phrase "Counties of Cities"
Working backwards from the use of the phrase in the 1947 Act, I can't find anything to suggest the phrase (distinct from simply "city") actually has any validity WRT Scotland. It appears once in the 1889 Act but with no definition, suggesting that it might have been carelessly cribbed from prior English legislation. I have never encountered use of the phrase as a description in e.g. civil registration records in Scotland while it was a standard description in England.MBRZ48 (talk) 04:06, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
Shires or Counties ?
This article should be renamed as Counties of Scotland as in Scotland counties are not referred to as "shires". Jamie Stuart (talk) 15:15, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Not done Jamie Stuart 11 - They quibbled high, they quibbled low... I understand this to be well intentioned in as far as forums go, but please provide a couple of reliably sourced texts and citations, please? Iryna Harpy (talk) 02:07, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 called them "counties" and gave them "county councils".[1] The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 called them "counties".[2] The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 called them "counties".[3] The National Records of Scotland, National Library of Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland continue to call them "counties".[4] It seems fairly clear that "counties" is both the official and the standard name for these. JimmyGuano (talk) 16:36, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
Requested move 1 April 2025
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Shires of Scotland → Counties of Scotland – It is unclear why this article uses the archaic word "shire" over the far more common "county". As noted above, all legislation dealing with the counties of Scotland used the latter word. The OED states, "The counties of Wales, and most of those of Scotland, have ‑shire as the ending of their name, but the word is now rarely employed in speaking of them." Zacwill (talk) 01:01, 1 April 2025 (UTC)