User:Fowler&fowler/Wales national

From the FAC review of the History of the Wales national football team (1876–1976) and the first few comments of TRM:

• The Wales national football team is the third-oldest side in international association football. Wales played their first fixture in March 1876, four years after Scotland and England had contested the first-ever international match.

• TRM's comment: "Wales played ..." quick repeat of Wales. Would be better to move that Wales to " The team played " instead, as you mention two other teams in between

• But this form of repetition is common for establishing usage, or for balancing something later in the sentence, viz. England and Scotland. If the usage for the team's name was say, "Wales national," then the second sentence would have been: "Wales national played ..." Examples abound.

• The team played annual fixtures against Scotland, England, and later Ireland and these were eventually organised into the British Home Championship, an annual competition between the Home Nations.

• TRM's comment: " and later Ireland and" comma after Ireland.

• In BrE the comma is optional.

• See the first sentence here in history resource at the British National archives (first sentence)
• See the first sentence in this Bodleian exhibition for example.
• See this course listing at Univ of St. Andrews

• Wales did not win their first championship until the 1906–07 edition of the competition and the triumph remained the nation's only one before the First World War.

• TRM's comment: ""the 1906–07 edition of the competition" -> "the 1906–07 tournament" -> I can't think of a single BritEng person that refers to these as "editions".

• But the OED (June 2020 edition) says, "A particular occurrence of a regularly held contest, tournament, or other event."
• And for examples of British usage see these British ones for 2017-18 edition

I acknowledge that I might have erred in interpreting TRM's comments, but at this point I began to feel irritated and made the post which I have scratched. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:24, 1 July 2020 (UTC)