On May 2, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> My daughter has chosen to go to university down in Cornwall (about 5
> hours drive west of me but not actually that far in miles) and it can
> feel like a different country there.  Heavy accents, strong sense of
> regional identity, their own flag.  Even some of the language can be a
> bit different.

As the old joke goes: “Americans think a hundred years is a long time, Britons think a hundred miles is a long way.”

Then again, 5 hours east of me is Texas. Heavy accents, strong sense of identity, their own flag, and the language is a bit different :-)

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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