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Originally Posted by HarryT
It goes back a lot earlier. Jane Austen does it a lot. Eg in "Pride and Prejudice", the militia regiment that Wickam is a member of is always referred to as the "-----shire" militia.
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That's funny, because I've been listening to P&P on audiobook recently, and it never occurred to me until now that the militia wasn't really in "Blankshire".
