In message , Anne Burgess 
 writes
>> Incidentally, why don't we ever hear of the Whigs these days
>> (-:?
>They dropped the name and became Liberal, didn't they?
>
>Anne B
>
>
Yes, I'm just curious as to how they managed to drop it (and to get 
everyone else to as well), unlike "Tory".
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for thoughts on PCs. **

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a
profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr, physicist
(1885-1962)