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Isn't "formerly called Dumbartonshire" more correct? it's not current usage in any context that springs to mind. Alai 17:55, 17 Jan 2005

This is a pretty trivial point. However the local historian Iain MacPhail wrote a "Short History of Dumbartonshire" circa 1960, at a time when the county council changed the name some years earlier. He examined the issue, off the top of my head he pointed out that the Church of Scotland still used "Dumbartonshire" in the title of its prebytery organisation.

Well, it may be fairly trivial, but if it's not worth getting right, it wasn't really worth changing from the previous wording in in the first place, was it? I believe the CoS uses "The Presbytery of Dumbarton", witness: http://www.presbyteryofdumbarton.org.uk/ Uses of "Dumbartonshire" may indeed be _more_ recent than 1960, but I don't think it's current. Alai 23:44, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)