BUT it's not the county, it's the Kingdom! Thus Mercian, Northumbrian, Cambrian etc! We had a Golden age once long ago! Jim Grant. Barry Say wrote:
Ii is one of the quirks of our wonderful language that the names of our
counties can also serve as adjectives.
Think of Durham, Yorkshire, Norfolk etc.
Whereas France /French
Germany / German
and so on
Barry
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