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Looking for some fun, preferably with someone my own age group. Preferably female, but I've been looking to try my bi side, so this is for guys too. Preferably slim, shorter than 6'0, with not much body hair.
 

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Yeah, we always do it like that. I don't know why. I guess partly as it's also the name of the county town, so it's to differentiate.

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Simple because it's the only county where the name of the city and the county are the same (that I can immediately think of), to differentiate between the two.

For example, most other counties have the county town name suffixed by -shire (Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire etc.) or an abbreviation of it suffixed by -shire (Lancashire, Hampshire). Some other counties have no relationship between the county town and the county name or are based on archaic counties (Cornwall, Kent, Cumberland/Cumbria, Northumberland/Northumbria, Norfolk, Suffolk) or have lost the -shire in common usage (Devon/Devonshire).

There have long been arguments that signs such as 'County of Cambridgeshire' are incorrect, as shire means 'county of' - that signs should say either 'Cambridgeshire' or County of Cambridge. Durham is the only county that actually gets it right.