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I’ve been thinking about car registration numbers lately, seeing as how there’s a lot of 06 reg cars going around (they’re in their thousands in Wexford, Galway and Clare, and in their ten thousands in Dublin and Cork). All Irish reg. numbers take the form:
## - QQ - ****
where ## is the last two digits of the year the car was registered; QQ is two letters (in some cases only one) denoting the county the car was registered in; and **** is a number anywhere from one and six digits long, denoting the order in which the car was registered. Thus, a car with this reg. plate:
06 - WX - 1798
is the 1798th car to be registered in Co. Wexford in 2006.
So my question is: how does the system operate in your part of the world? And if anyone can explain the British system to me, I’d be grateful.
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Is féidir liom do chnaipe go léir a fheiceál. Bainim an-taitneamh as an eolas sin.
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“The bells of the Angelus call us to pray
In sweet tones announcing the Sacred Ave
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria…”
It’s been many a year since I left school, but I could still recognise the tune being rung at the cathedral today. You know, we Catholics get awful smug sometimes, scoffing at Protestants who think we worship the Virgin Mary. But May is coming, and there’s going to be May Altars, and pilgrimages to Our Lady’s Island, and given all that you can see how the heretics get confused. ;-P
“Oh Mary we crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels, and Queen of the May,
Oh Mary we crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels,
And Queen of the May.”
-^)--)~
## - QQ - ****
where ## is the last two digits of the year the car was registered; QQ is two letters (in some cases only one) denoting the county the car was registered in; and **** is a number anywhere from one and six digits long, denoting the order in which the car was registered. Thus, a car with this reg. plate:
06 - WX - 1798
is the 1798th car to be registered in Co. Wexford in 2006.
So my question is: how does the system operate in your part of the world? And if anyone can explain the British system to me, I’d be grateful.
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Is féidir liom do chnaipe go léir a fheiceál. Bainim an-taitneamh as an eolas sin.
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“The bells of the Angelus call us to pray
In sweet tones announcing the Sacred Ave
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria…”
It’s been many a year since I left school, but I could still recognise the tune being rung at the cathedral today. You know, we Catholics get awful smug sometimes, scoffing at Protestants who think we worship the Virgin Mary. But May is coming, and there’s going to be May Altars, and pilgrimages to Our Lady’s Island, and given all that you can see how the heretics get confused. ;-P
“Oh Mary we crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels, and Queen of the May,
Oh Mary we crown thee with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels,
And Queen of the May.”
-^)--)~