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Largest cities

Manchester New Hampshire is not the 2nd largest when Stamford CT has a population over 130k.

Providence RI has a 180k....there's some serious errors in the first couple paragraphs 216.49.141.151 (talk) 16:45, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The second-largest city in New England is Worcester, which is what the opening paragraph says. What errors are you referring to? AJD (talk) 17:11, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the commenter got confused by the sequence of phrases. I put in semi-colons to make it clearer. Ken Gallager (talk) 12:37, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'Comprised of' not 'comprising'

The first line said that 'New England is comprising six states'. That should be 'New England is comprised of six states'.

Comprising = to make up

Comprised of = made up of

https://www.merriam-webster.com/sentences/comprised%20of 97.112.223.165 (talk) 22:13, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comprising = 'made up of'. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comprise

Uh but actually since this is so contentious let's just use a clearer word. I'll change it to "consisting of". AJD (talk) 22:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks friend :) 97.112.223.165 (talk) 02:11, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]