` An editor has objected to ``second-largest city in the United Kingdom outside London``, on the grounds that Greater London is not a city.  The problem is that ``city`` is used in two different senses, often in the common English sense of a large urban settlement, which would include London, e.g. in List of European cities by population within city limits, but sometimes in the UK in the sense of a local government district with city status - which may or may not be a city in the common sense.  Not many people would say that Birmingham is the largest city in the UK on the grounds that London is not a city.  But since, as already pointed out, this is an article about Leeds, not the City of Leeds, the whole sentence is best omitted here.  `