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"In German speaking areas, Hall can also be a town name, where the name refers to the halls where the salt was extracted from saline solutions."
- To my knowledge the place name part "hall" is of celtic origin and directly refers to salt (or salt mining) in some way and does not come from a meaning of "cavern" or buildings of a salt processing plant or whatever.
- E.g. there are numerous other places in Austria whose names indicate a former connection with salt mining/trade (?) in the Alps, like Bad Hall, Hallein and the famous town of Hallstatt that gave it's name to a bronze age culture. --Samwz 11:28, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] There are Halls all over England
"Deriving from the above, a hall is the term used for a country house in midland and northern England." There are country-house Halls all over England, not just in the midlands or north. So I'm changing it to: "Deriving from the above, a hall is often the term used for an English country house." For all I know, there may be some in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland also.
- Humour me. Provide links to all those country houses in Britain outside the Midlands and North of England, in which the Wikipedia title includes the word 'hall'. A Quick look in Category:Historic houses in England yields four of which two are in Greater London. Category:Historic houses in Wales adds one more and even extending the search to all the UK adds no more. (RJP 22:12, 17 June 2006 (UTC))
[edit] Sports Hall
Should sports halls be mentioned somewhere. This artical is so confusing i wouldnt know where to add it. What if the page were to have a definition of a hall, and then types of halls underneath that? I dunno - Opinions?? Caspar 17:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Community Halls
I'd like to create a new article for Community Halls. Thoughts?Oldsoul 07:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tone
The tone of this article is not in keeping with that of similar articles in the English language Wikipedia; it is unnecessarily pretentious and pseudo-formal. I altered some things, but frankly am too vexed to do much additionally other than parrot its fripperies in my comment here; thus I will stop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.143.221.84 (talk) 20:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
