Subject: Re: Offshoot query<br/>
Date: Mar 29, 2002 @ 17:52<br/>
Author: lnadybal (&quot;lnadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1406562512">Re: my incorrect quote &quot;outliers not on an island&quot;.<br/>
You&#39;re right.  But the UK is the whole of an island, not just a part.  <br/>
Doesn&#39;t that state of affairs still disqualify the base areas as well <br/>
as northern Ireland from the discussion?<br/>
LN<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Ahem. The terms of reference of the original posting were &quot;... <br/>
&gt; consists of two parts which are not connected by land and neither of <br/>
&gt; which are islands.&quot; Not &quot;... on an island.&quot;<br/>
&gt; So if the detached fragment is an island, it&#39;s excluded. But *part* <br/>
&gt; of an island is allowable, if not necessarily intended. Hence my <br/>
&gt; strayings into Malaysia and Northern Ireland.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Grant </span></blockquote></div>