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 and southern Connecticut, the short "a" may also be noticeably raised in many other environments. The following terms originate from and are used commonly and nearly exclusively throughout New England: As in the rest of the Northeast, "sneakers" is the primary term for "athletic shoes", and common typically before adjectives or adverbs, "wicked" is used as an intensifier word (predominant in Northern and Eastern New England English, from Boston). Many Boston-originating local terms have dispersed throughout Eastern New England and, prominently, all the rest of Massachusetts. Eastern New England English encompasses Boston and Maine accents, and, according to some sources,