[NextHendrix]

I can only grok land areas in terms of the size of Wales.

[drcongo]

A Luxembourg is approximately 1/5 of a Wales. No idea why the Guardian would be using Luxembourgs when the world has settled on the Wales as the unit of land area.

[earthbee]

So roughly two deciwales?

[drewcoo]

As a non-native, I have to ask what is the plural of "Wales?"

[jfengel]

Etymologically, "Wales" is already plural. The root is "wealh", meaning "foreigner" (and before that, a tribe who lived in the region). "Cornwall" contains the same root.

Of course in this case "Wales" is its own word, independent of its etymological root. Since it's an English word, you pluralize it the same way you would any other word ending in s: "Waleses".

The same construction applies to the founder of Wikipedia with his family: The Waleses.

[junon]

I propose "woolies".

[dan_hawkins]

What happened to football stadiums?? /s