Counties of England Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire. The County Football Associations are roughly based on English counties, with exceptions such as the combinations of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire and Leicestershire and Rutland. Counties of England The counties of England are areas used for different purposes, which include administrative, geographical, cultural and political demarcation. The term 'county' is not clearly defined and can apply to similar or the same areas used by each of these demarcation structures. These different types of county each have a more formal name but are commonly referred to just as 'counties'. The current arrangement is the result of
New England English (). This form of "t"-glottalization (especially the form) is found commonly in other parts of the country as well, like in the word "Britain" (sometimes represented along the lines of "Brih'in"). The extent that speakers raise the tongue in the English "short "a" vowel varies widely in New England; however, across the board, New England speakers demonstrate a definite "nasal" short-"a" system, in which the vowel is always raised the absolute strongest whenever occurring before the nasal consonants and (so that, "pan", for example, nearly approaches the sound of the word "paean"). In all of New England except Rhode Island