From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Gary McGath  wrote:   
   > Another oddity is that the Regency, when George III was stripped of   
   > his royal powers in favor of the later George IV, lasted only from   
   > 1811 to 1820, but the "regency period" is generally considered to   
   > have lasted considerably longer on both sides.   
      
   ObFandom:  In some SF cons it's still going on, given that they still   
   have Regency dances.   
      
   I could have also mentioned that "the regency period" only means that   
   one, although there have been other regencies in British history.   
      
   And that the Georgian period refers only to the reign of Georges   
   I through IV, never Georges V or VI.  Similarly with Elizabethan   
   referring only to the reign of Elizabeth I, never Elizabeth II.   
      
   Also, there's a seven-year gap between George IV and Victoria, which   
   apparently doesn't have a name.  There also seems to be no name for   
   anything since the Edwardian period ended.   
      
   Also, "Georgian" probably isn't the right term anyway, or at least   
   we're not pronouncing it right, given that the first two Georges   
   were German, hence would have pronounced their names as "Gay-org."   
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